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What makes a great leader? How can leadership be developed into a force for true achievement? The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations explores successful leadership through the personal and professional choices of the most influential people in business.

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Ana Botin

October 15, 2026

David Rubenstein (0:02)

One of the most successful banks in the world is actually based in Spain, but operates all over the world. It's Banco Santander. For four generations, the Botin family has controlled and led Banco Santander and helped build it into a global behemoth in the banking world. I had a chance to sit down with the executive…

What is it about Banco Santander that enabled it to grow from a city in Spain to a global bank? What would you say is the single or the two most important things that enable you to be this successful?

Ana Botin (0:41)

We have a culture of constantly reinventing ourselves, of disrupting ourselves. We have always been brave on that side. We were the first to have the automated tellers, the first to build our own core technology back in the 90s, which we then actually got behind, so we're trying to do that in a better way. So…

It's the same thing as buy now, pay later, but from the customer point of view, it's not the same. So customer point of view, trust, super important, and really staying true to your values. You know, think what comes next.

David Rubenstein (1:32)

You must have observed there are very few women at the top of major commercial banks. Why do you think that is and you think it's changing?

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