Santander Taps Summers, D'Souza as Technology Reshapes Banks
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Ana Botin, chairman of Banco Santander SA, has appointed a tech-heavy advisory board in a sign that information technology has become crucial to her growth plans at the Spanish lender.
"I can’t think of a precedent where you’ve seen a panel of this nature," says Julian Skan, a managing director at Accenture Plc in London who advisers banks on IT issues. "This decision recognizes the breadth of angles you have to cover to implement a tech strategy, and she’ll now have serious people providing input to the board."