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Banco Santander (SAN SM) is a leading commercial bank, founded in 1857 and headquartered in Spain and one of the largest banks in the world by market capitalization. The group’s activities are consolidated into five global businesses: Retail & Commercial Banking, Openbank, Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB), Wealth Management & Insurance and Payments. This operating model allows the bank to better leverage its unique combination of global scale and local leadership. Santander aims to be the best open financial services platform providing services to individuals, SMEs, corporates, financial institutions and governments. The bank’s purpose is to help people and businesses prosper in a simple, personal and fair way. In the first quarter of 2026, Banco Santander had €1.4 trillion in total funds, more than 176 million customers, 6,600 branches and 185,000 employees.

Our purpose at Alpha Bank is to enable progress in life and business for a better tomorrow, by integrating finance seamlessly into our customers’ lives. Since 1879, when J.F. Costopoulos founded Alpha Bank, our success is rooted in the relationships of trust we maintain with our customers. Today, we look to the future and aspire to be recognized as a reliable partner that helps businesses evolve and succeed in the green and digital economy, as well as an enabler of inclusive progress for our people, customers and communities. Join us on this journey.

Piraeus was founded in 1916; it is headquartered in Athens and is listed on the Athens Stock Exchange. Today it represents the leading Bank in Greece in terms of customer loans and deposits. The Bank maintains the largest distribution network in Greece and offers a vast array of financial products and services to 4.5 million customers. The Bank is committed to play a leading role in the Greek economy, actively supporting economic activity and extroversion through specialized solutions and high-level services to its customers. Piraeus Bank’s main targets are: (a) enhancement and diversification of revenue sources and operational efficiency to generate sustainable profitability, (b) expansion of lending to support the country’s economic recovery, (c) optimization of return on capital and reward to shareholders, with a growing distribution pay-out ratio in line with European banks’ average levels. Piraeus Bank's transformation is delivering tangible results, as the de-risking of its balance sheet has been completed, demonstrating once again the inherent dynamism of its banking activities. Piraeus Bank is a leading provider of banking services and credit to retail customers and corporate clients in Greece. In addition, Piraeus Bank is a leading provider of banking services to the Greek agricultural sector, offering innovative products such as contract farming and facilitating operations subsidized by the EU. The Group is also a leading adviser in capital markets, investment banking, leasing and shipping finance, as well as a market leader in brokerage services, electronic banking and a first mover in energy transition financing in Greece.