{"id":51741,"date":"2026-07-07T22:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/51741\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T22:12:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T22:12:00","slug":"santander-brasil-taps-b3-ceo-to-lead-next-phase-of-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/51741\/","title":{"rendered":"Santander Brasil Taps B3 CEO to Lead Next Phase of Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Le\u00e3o will step down as CEO by July, Santander Brasil said in a Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/1471055\/000129281426001441\/bsbr20260319_6k1.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">filing<\/a> with the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Securities and Exchange Commission<\/a>. He will continue to lead the bank until the transition is complete.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finkelsztain\u2019s appointment as CEO is subject to regulatory approvals, according to the filing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Banco Santander Executive Chair <a href=\"https:\/\/es.linkedin.com\/in\/anabotin\/en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ana Bot\u00edn<\/a> announced the leadership transition in a Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/anabotin_pleased-to-welcome-gilson-finkelsztain-as-activity-7440670255171080193-e_IU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> on LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the SEC filing, Finkelsztain held positions at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citi.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Citibank<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpmorgan.com\/global\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">J.P.Morgan<\/a> and Santander Brasil before becoming CEO of B3.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe brings a strong background and experience in Brazil\u2019s financial sector \u2014 including Santander \u2014 placing him well to lead the next phase of profitable growth at Santander Brazil,\u201d Bot\u00edn said in her post.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Le\u00e3o has been with Santander for 11 years and has been CEO and a member of the board of directors for five years, according to the SEC filing. He previously served as vice president of the banks\u2019 Corporate segment and director of its Corporate &amp; Investment Banking segment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bot\u00edn said in her post that Le\u00e3o informed the bank earlier this year of his decision to step down, enabling a well-planned succession.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThanks to his leadership, the bank is today a more diversified, agile and strong organization,\u201d Bot\u00edn said in her post. \u201cWe visited many customers together, from large companies to self-employed and entrepreneurs across the country, to learn about their businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/marioroleao_comeaexaagorasantander-share-7440527543620984832-DlFW?utm_medium=ios_app&amp;rcm=ACoAAAat3SMBEgADfNlTqwJlqeMPwRjBZGD_D84&amp;utm_source=social_share_send&amp;utm_campaign=mail\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> on LinkedIn translated by the platform, Le\u00e3o said until the leadership transition is complete, he will continue as CEO and nothing will change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHaving led this company with all my strength and energy throughout these years, I couldn\u2019t be happier with what we have experienced since then,\u201d Le\u00e3o said of his five years as CEO. \u201cWe are transforming our portfolio, our results, our journeys and, above all, our absolute focus on the customer vision \u2014 and, from there, our increasingly strong culture of service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For all PYMNTS B2B coverage, subscribe to the daily\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/subscribe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">B2B Newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Le\u00e3o will step down as CEO by July, Santander Brasil said in a Friday filing with the U.S.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[20737,20738,144,2542,2153,273,22329,1469,1470,20739],"class_list":["post-51741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-banco-santander","tag-b2b","tag-b2b-payments","tag-banco-santander","tag-banking","tag-banks","tag-news","tag-personnel","tag-pymnts-news","tag-whats-hot","tag-whats-hot-in-b2b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}