Information on Valores Santander

RNS Number : 1655H

Banco Santander S.A.

06 July 2012

 

MATERIAL FACT

With regard to the currently outstanding "Valores Santander", for which a prospectus was registered with the Spanish Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores on September 19, 2007, Banco Santander hereby gives notice that it received conversion requests in relation to 511,769 of such "Valores Santander" in the voluntary conversion period ended July 3, 2012. Pursuant to the terms of such securities, Banco Santander has issued 193,095,393 new shares in exchange for those "Valores Santander", which represent 2.01% of the share capital post-increase. The public deed formalising the capital increase has been registered with the Commercial Registry of Cantabria today. It is envisaged that the authorisation for the admission to listing of the new shares in the Spanish Stock Exchanges will be granted on July 10, 2012, with ordinary trading of such shares commencing on July 11, 2012. These new shares will carry the right to participate in the "Santander Dividendo Elección" program (scrip dividend scheme) to be applied to the first 2012 interim dividend as announced on June 1, 2012.

Boadilla del Monte (Madrid), July 6, 2012

 

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