-- Santander is exploring strategic options to for its U.K. operations, including exiting the market, the Financial Times reports, citing unnamed sources.
-- The Spanish bank's review is at an early stage and stems from frustration from its high cost base, the U.K.'s ring-fencing of its retail-banking activities, its independent board, among others, the FT reports.
-- Santander told the FT that the U.K. is a core market for the lender.
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