Finance

Santander Plays Key Role as US Buys Argentine Peso to Back Milei

A Banco Santander branch in New York.

Photographer: Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg

When US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent decided Thursday to buy Argentine pesos in the market to shore up the South American economy, he didn’t turn to a US bank. Instead it chose Spain’s Banco Santander SA.

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