Santander Mexico

Santander Mexico is the local face of a large international bank, which usually means a broad menu of ordinary banking products and a process-heavy style. By our assessment, it is good at the basics people expect from a major bank: accounts, cards, transfers and lending in a system that feels institutional rather than experimental. The downside is that this sort of bank rarely feels light; there are forms, steps and a certain corporate sameness to it. In practice it is a bank you use for routine financial life, not for clever little extras. Santander Mexico sits alongside the other big banks in Mexico, with the advantage of a global brand and the limits of a large bank’s machinery. The catalogue marks it for Mexico.