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In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen

Ana Botin Executive Chair Santander: Future of banking, inflation and women in finance

In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen

Norges Bank Investment Management

In Good Company, Business, Norges Bank, Nicolai Tangen

4.8186 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Ana is one of the most powerful people in global finance. She runs one of the world’s largest banks with over 160 million customers and over 200 000 employees. Ana shares unique insight into the future of banking, how to create a global culture and answer the question of do we still need the banks?


The production team on this episode were PLAN-B’s Nikolai Ovenberg and Niklas Figenschau Johansen. Background research was done by Sigurd Brekke and portfolio manager Pablo De Castro


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0:00.0

Hi everyone and welcome to our podcast in Good Company.

0:04.0

I'm Nicola Tangan, the CEO of the Norwegian Someone Wealth Fund.

0:07.5

In this podcast, I talk to the leaders of some of the largest companies we are invested in

0:11.0

so that you can learn what we own and meet these impressive leaders.

0:15.1

Today, I'm speaking to Anna Boutin, executive chair of Santander, one of the world's largest banks,

0:24.9

with over 160 million customers and over 200,000 employees.

0:31.1

We own over 3% of Santander, translating into 16 billion crowner or 1.6 billion US dollars.

0:34.7

Anna Patin is one of the most influential people in global finance.

0:37.7

Full stop. You for sure don't want to miss this one.

0:48.7

Big thank you, Anna, for taking the time today.

0:51.2

You are one of the leading names in European banking and fourth generation of your family to lead the bank.

0:55.8

So was it always a dream of yours?

0:58.7

Well, thank you for asking me to be with you, Nicola.

1:02.3

No, absolutely not.

1:04.6

You know, I had like two stages.

1:07.0

First, when I was very young, I wanted to be a pro golfer.

1:09.6

I loved golf. Then when I went very young, I wanted to be a pro golfer. I loved golf.

1:12.4

Then when I went to university, and before I actually joined J.P. Morgan out of university,

1:18.1

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a spy, believe it or not.

1:22.8

I thought that was a great way to travel and know the world, understand what's going on. And I joined

1:30.2

J.P. Morgan, because in the 80s, that's, that was a good place to be, actually. So, no, I didn't

1:37.9

always want to be a banker. But did your, did your father want you to be a banker?

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