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                    <title>Carlos Torres Vila, President of the BBVA Foundation, presents the Frontiers Award to Gerald Holton</title>
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                    <pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2021 01:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[bsanjuanbenito]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Frontiers of knowledge]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Gerald Holton, who was unable to attend the awards ceremony in person, received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Humanities and Social Sciences from the President of the BBVA Foundation, Carlos Torres Vila, at his home in Cambridge (Massachusetts). "This award recognizes Holton's great contribution to the understanding of the cultural dimension of science," said Torres Vila.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Gerald Holton, who was unable to attend the awards ceremony in person, received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Humanities and Social Sciences from the President of the BBVA Foundation, Carlos Torres Vila, at his home in Cambridge (Massachusetts). "This award recognizes Holton's great contribution to the understanding of the cultural dimension of science," said Torres Vila.]]>
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                    <title>Glory of Spain Exhibition makes its last stop in the U.S. at MFAH, courtesy of the BBVA Foundation</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/glory-of-spain-exhibition-makes-its-last-stop-in-the-u-s-at-mfah-courtesy-of-the-bbva-usa-foundation/</link>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2020 15:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[al.ortiz]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Arts and culture]]>
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                            <![CDATA[On Sunday, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston opened its latest in a long line of collaborations with BBVA USA: The traveling exhibition <a href="https://www.mfah.org/exhibitions/glory-of-spain-treasures-hispanic-society-museum-library" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Glory of Spain: Treasures from the Hispanic Society Museum &amp; Library. </a>]]>
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                            <![CDATA[On Sunday, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston opened its latest in a long line of collaborations with BBVA USA: The traveling exhibition <a href="https://www.mfah.org/exhibitions/glory-of-spain-treasures-hispanic-society-museum-library" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Glory of Spain: Treasures from the Hispanic Society Museum &amp; Library. </a>]]>
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                    <title>100th anniversary of the Madrid Metro: BBVA was the only bank to bet on the project</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/100th-anniversary-of-the-madrid-metro-bbva-was-the-only-bank-to-bet-on-the-project/</link>
                    <pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2019 01:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[XE84823]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Construction and town planning]]>
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                                <![CDATA[History]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Social affairs]]>
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                            <![CDATA[The <a href="https://www.metromadrid.es/es/noticia/cien-anios-de-metro-en-12-capitulos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Madrid Metro celebrated its 100th anniversary</a>, bringing its one million daily passengers closer to the Spanish capital in a quick and sustainable manner. BBVA is especially pleased to join the centennial anniversary of its opening, made possible thanks to the financial support provided by the Banco de Vizcaya despite investors’ suspicion of this novel and pioneering form of transportation.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[The <a href="https://www.metromadrid.es/es/noticia/cien-anios-de-metro-en-12-capitulos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Madrid Metro celebrated its 100th anniversary</a>, bringing its one million daily passengers closer to the Spanish capital in a quick and sustainable manner. BBVA is especially pleased to join the centennial anniversary of its opening, made possible thanks to the financial support provided by the Banco de Vizcaya despite investors’ suspicion of this novel and pioneering form of transportation.]]>
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                    <title>Caring for Art: Conservation and Restoration of the BBVA Collection</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/caring-art-conservation-and-restoration-bbva-collection/</link>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2018 00:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[Yolanda González Menéndez]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Arts and culture]]>
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                                <![CDATA[BBVA Collection]]>
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                                <![CDATA[History]]>
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                            <![CDATA[There is no greater witness to history than art. Present in all eras and cultures, artisticcreations have come down to our day filled with esthetic and documentary value. For that reason, the work at the <a href="https://www.coleccionbbva.com/es/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BBVA Collection</a> has very little to do with finance. It consists of caring for art, in order to preserve our history.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[There is no greater witness to history than art. Present in all eras and cultures, artisticcreations have come down to our day filled with esthetic and documentary value. For that reason, the work at the <a href="https://www.coleccionbbva.com/es/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BBVA Collection</a> has very little to do with finance. It consists of caring for art, in order to preserve our history.]]>
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                    <title>BBVA's Historical Archive: memory, so as not to forget</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/bbvas-historical-archives-memory-so-not-forget/</link>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2017 01:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[No utilizar]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Architecture]]>
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                                <![CDATA[History]]>
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                            <![CDATA[“We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.”

<strong>― Jorge Luis Borges, in Praise of Darkness</strong>]]>
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                            <![CDATA[“We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.”

<strong>― Jorge Luis Borges, in Praise of Darkness</strong>]]>
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                    <title>BBVA Francés: from traditional bank to powerhouse digital bank of the new millennium</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/bbva-frances-traditional-bank-powerhouse-digital-bank-new-millennium/</link>
                    <pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2017 00:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[Blanca González del Fresno]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Architecture]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Communication]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Construction and town planning]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Corporate communication]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Digital banking]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Economic analysis]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Institutional communication]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Macroeconomics analysis]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Mobile banking]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Regional analysis]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Transformation]]>
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                            <![CDATA[The oldest private domestic bank in Argentina and one of the leaders in Latin America, BBVA Francés on October 14 marked its 130th year in operation and its 21st year as part of the BBVA Group. In the course of its history, BBVA Francés has gone from being a 20th century “temple of money,” to a powerhouse of digital banking in the Argentina of the 21st century.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[The oldest private domestic bank in Argentina and one of the leaders in Latin America, BBVA Francés on October 14 marked its 130th year in operation and its 21st year as part of the BBVA Group. In the course of its history, BBVA Francés has gone from being a 20th century “temple of money,” to a powerhouse of digital banking in the Argentina of the 21st century.]]>
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                    <title>From Alan Turing to cyberpunk: the history of blockchain</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/innovation/alan-turing-cyberpunk-history-blockchain/</link>
                    <pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2017 01:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[Blanca González del Fresno]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Blockchain]]>
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                                <![CDATA[History]]>
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                                <![CDATA[IT (computer sciences)]]>
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                            <![CDATA[The number of companies and investors betting on blockchain continues to grow. But how did it come about? What was needed to develop bitcoin, its first practical application? And who were the pioneers of blockchain?]]>
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                            <![CDATA[The number of companies and investors betting on blockchain continues to grow. But how did it come about? What was needed to develop bitcoin, its first practical application? And who were the pioneers of blockchain?]]>
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                    <title>From barter to the chip: the past, present, and future of money</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/financial-health/barter-chip-present-future-money/</link>
                    <pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2017 00:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
                    <dc:creator>
                        <![CDATA[Yolanda González Menéndez]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Development]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Digital banking]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Digital Economics]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Financial system]]>
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                                <![CDATA[History]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Innovation]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Sex, religion, and politics, along with harmony and trust, gave birth to money. At first, there was barter. Later came coins and bills, which have now given way to the network age, a world in which space and time have disappeared and transactions are conducted in bits. In order to understand the present and predict the future, Chris Skinner reflects on the history of money in his book, 'The Next Step: Exponential Life', which can be downloaded online free of charge as part of BBVA’s OpenMind project.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Sex, religion, and politics, along with harmony and trust, gave birth to money. At first, there was barter. Later came coins and bills, which have now given way to the network age, a world in which space and time have disappeared and transactions are conducted in bits. In order to understand the present and predict the future, Chris Skinner reflects on the history of money in his book, 'The Next Step: Exponential Life', which can be downloaded online free of charge as part of BBVA’s OpenMind project.]]>
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                    <title>The Historical Archive: the Memory of BBVA</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/historical-archive-memory-bbva/</link>
                    <pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2017 14:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[U095756]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Architecture]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Arts and culture]]>
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                                <![CDATA[History]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Visual arts]]>
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                            <![CDATA[The BBVA Historical Archive is a private business archive that traces its roots back 160 years, to the bank´s founding in 1857. Located in Bilbao, it houses the basic documentation of the three banks that would later form BBVA: Banco de Bilbao, Banco de Vizcaya and Argentaria. During the 19th and most of 20th Century, their geographical context was largely limited to Spain; it was only at the end of the 20th century that BBVA began its international expansion.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[The BBVA Historical Archive is a private business archive that traces its roots back 160 years, to the bank´s founding in 1857. Located in Bilbao, it houses the basic documentation of the three banks that would later form BBVA: Banco de Bilbao, Banco de Vizcaya and Argentaria. During the 19th and most of 20th Century, their geographical context was largely limited to Spain; it was only at the end of the 20th century that BBVA began its international expansion.]]>
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                    <title>A journey through time with the BBVA Collection</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/journey-time-bbva-collection/</link>
                    <pubDate>Sun, 13 Aug 2017 22:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[Marta Torres Briegas]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Arts and culture]]>
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                                <![CDATA[BBVA Collection]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Leisure and Travel]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Visual arts]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Just as they do every summer, the streets of Paris, New York and Madrid prepare to be discovered by visitors and to enliven their imagination. Who hasn´t dreamed at one time or another of strolling through their favorite city two hundred years ago and living its history in first person? There´s no need to go on dreaming. Thanks to the<a href="https://www.coleccionbbva.com/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> BBVA Collection</a>, we can go around the world and revisit the past.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Just as they do every summer, the streets of Paris, New York and Madrid prepare to be discovered by visitors and to enliven their imagination. Who hasn´t dreamed at one time or another of strolling through their favorite city two hundred years ago and living its history in first person? There´s no need to go on dreaming. Thanks to the<a href="https://www.coleccionbbva.com/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> BBVA Collection</a>, we can go around the world and revisit the past.]]>
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