Santander Corporate Banking has appointed Steve Young as Relationship Director in the East Midlands. In his new role, Steve will support a wide range of business types and will focus on supporting corporate customers with in excess of £25 million turnover.

Steve is based at Santander's Nottingham Corporate Business Centre, which supports businesses with a turnover above £1 million and reports in to Nick Pulley, Regional Director.

Steve, who lives in Nottingham, joins Santander from Barclays, where he ran the Corporate Banking Teams in South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Humberside. With extensive experience, gained over a 23 year banking career, Steve has particular expertise in supporting businesses which operate in the manufacturing and retail sectors.

Commenting on his new role, Steve said: "I am delighted to be joining Santander Corporate Banking. The bank has built a strong reputation amongst businesses and advisers and I am looking forward to working with existing customers of the bank and also developing new relationships with businesses across the East Midlands where I have spent the vast majority of my corporate banking career working.

"Santander has a clear strategy to increase the support we provide to well run, viable businesses by listening to their needs and then providing sustainable sensible solutions. I'm very keen to start working with new clients and to utilise the international strength of Santander to help businesses in the East Midlands to flourish."

Santander currently has a market share of around 3% in the UK SME market but the business is growing quickly with a 20 per cent increase in lending year on year in the first six months of 2010, compared with the first half of 2009.