By Pietro Lombardi

Banco Santander SA (SAN.MC) has hired Google's Aiaz Kazi as Chief Platform Officer, it said Monday.

Mr. Kazi, who was head of platform ecosystem for Google Cloud at Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL), will "support the bank's transformation to become an open platform for financial services," the lender said.

In his newly-created position, he will report to the bank's chief digital and innovation officer.

Write to Pietro Lombardi at pietro.lombardi@dowjones.com

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

March 04, 2019 06:32 ET (11:32 GMT)

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