As communicated by “other relevant information” registered with the Spanish National Securities Market Commission (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores) on 27 June 2023, the board of directors, in accordance with the delegation granted by the ordinary general shareholders’ meeting, has resolved on 24 April 2023 on the Bank’s share capital reduction through a cancellation of own shares acquired in the share buy-back programme, the beginning and termination of which Banco Santander properly notified to the market through the notice of inside information published on 28 February 2023 with registration number 1784 and the notice of other relevant information published on 21 April 2023 with registration number 22057, respectively.
Banco Santander’s share capital has been reduced by EUR 134,924,476.50 through the cancellation of 269,848,953 own shares. Consequently, the resulting Bank’s share capital has been set at EUR 8,092,073,029.50, represented by 16,184,146,059 shares with a nominal value of EUR 0.50 each, all of them of the same class and series.
The public deed regarding the corporate resolutions on the capital reduction and the consequent amendment of Article 5 of the Bank’s By-laws has been registered with the Commercial Registry of Santander on 30 June 2023. On 4 July, took place the delisting of the 269,848,953 cancelled shares from the Spanish and foreign stock exchanges or stock markets on which the Bank’s shares are listed, and the cancellation of the book-entry records of the cancelled shares before the competent bodies.
