Share capital increase (Valores Santander)

RNS Number : 9934P

Banco Santander S.A.

11 October 2011

 

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 3,458 of such "Valores Santander" in the ordinary conversion period ended October 3, 2011. Pursuant to the terms of such securities, Banco Santander has issued 1,223,457 new shares in exchange for those "Valores Santander". The public deed formalising the capital increase was registered with the Commercial Registry of Cantabria on October 10, 2011. The authorisation for the admission to listing of the new shares in the Spanish Stock Exchanges has been granted today and, thus, ordinary trading of such shares will commence tomorrow. These new shares will carry the right to participate in the "Santander Dividendo Elección" program (scrip dividend scheme) to be applied to the second 2011 interim dividend as announced on October 6, 2011.

Boadilla del Monte (Madrid), October 11, 2011

 

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