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                    <title>BBVA joins the celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of the Republic of Türkiye</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/bbva-joins-the-celebrations-marking-the-100th-anniversary-of-the-republic-of-turkiye/</link>
                    <pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2023 06:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[Santiago Romero]]>
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                            <![CDATA[On October 29,1923, the Turkish state was established as a republic following the Turkish Grand National Assembly’s approval of the constitutional amendment, which was proposed by Atatürk. Türkiye has commemorated Republic Day every October 29th since then, with Northern Cyprus and international delegations and dignitaries participating in the celebrations.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[On October 29,1923, the Turkish state was established as a republic following the Turkish Grand National Assembly’s approval of the constitutional amendment, which was proposed by Atatürk. Türkiye has commemorated Republic Day every October 29th since then, with Northern Cyprus and international delegations and dignitaries participating in the celebrations.]]>
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                    <title>BBVA commits to net zero emissions by 2050</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/bbva-commits-to-net-zero-emissions-by-2050/</link>
                    <pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2021 11:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[Santiago Romero]]>
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                            <![CDATA[<h3>Carlos Torres Vila, Group Chairman</h3>
<ul>
 	<li><strong>Sustainability:</strong> Banks have a key role in “analyzing investment opportunities and managing the risks associated” to climate change</li>
 	<li><strong>Sale of the U.S. subsidiary:</strong> “We have an extraordinary position of strength, which gives us tremendous strategic optionality to continue creating value for shareholders”</li>
 	<li><strong>Dividend:</strong> “We propose to the AGM the approval of the agreements required to implement a share buyback plan of up to 10 percent of the Group’s shares once the sale of our U.S. subsidiary is closed”</li>
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<h3>Onur Genç, Chief executive officer</h3>
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 	<li><strong>Digitization:</strong> “Our focus on creating end-to-end digital solutions and processes has been key to reaching new clients, which is one of our strategic priorities”</li>
 	<li><strong>Capital:</strong> Following the sale of the U.S. subsidiary, BBVA will be “one of Europe’s best capitalized banks, with the largest margin between our capital position and the minimum requirement”</li>
 	<li><strong>Team:</strong> “We continue fostering inclusion and diversity, because we are convinced that it makes us better, as a company and as a society”</li>
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                            <![CDATA[<h3>Carlos Torres Vila, Group Chairman</h3>
<ul>
 	<li><strong>Sustainability:</strong> Banks have a key role in “analyzing investment opportunities and managing the risks associated” to climate change</li>
 	<li><strong>Sale of the U.S. subsidiary:</strong> “We have an extraordinary position of strength, which gives us tremendous strategic optionality to continue creating value for shareholders”</li>
 	<li><strong>Dividend:</strong> “We propose to the AGM the approval of the agreements required to implement a share buyback plan of up to 10 percent of the Group’s shares once the sale of our U.S. subsidiary is closed”</li>
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<h3>Onur Genç, Chief executive officer</h3>
<ul>
 	<li><strong>Digitization:</strong> “Our focus on creating end-to-end digital solutions and processes has been key to reaching new clients, which is one of our strategic priorities”</li>
 	<li><strong>Capital:</strong> Following the sale of the U.S. subsidiary, BBVA will be “one of Europe’s best capitalized banks, with the largest margin between our capital position and the minimum requirement”</li>
 	<li><strong>Team:</strong> “We continue fostering inclusion and diversity, because we are convinced that it makes us better, as a company and as a society”</li>
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                    <title>A bank prepared for the future</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/corporate-presentation/</link>
                    <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[No utilizar]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Corporate information]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Earnings]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Institutional communication]]>
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                            <![CDATA[BBVA is a global financial group with a customer-centric vision, characterized by its pioneering commitment to digitalization, innovation, and sustainability. It currently has over more than 81.2 million active customers and over 127,174 employees. BBVA operates in more than 25 countries worldwide, has a leading position in the Spanish market, is the largest financial institution in Mexico, and has leading franchises in South America and Turkey. BBVA also has a remarkable investment banking, transaction banking, and capital markets business, leveraged on the cross-border business among its geographies and sector-specific expertise, with specialized focus on supporting companies in their decarbonization efforts.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[BBVA is a global financial group with a customer-centric vision, characterized by its pioneering commitment to digitalization, innovation, and sustainability. It currently has over more than 81.2 million active customers and over 127,174 employees. BBVA operates in more than 25 countries worldwide, has a leading position in the Spanish market, is the largest financial institution in Mexico, and has leading franchises in South America and Turkey. BBVA also has a remarkable investment banking, transaction banking, and capital markets business, leveraged on the cross-border business among its geographies and sector-specific expertise, with specialized focus on supporting companies in their decarbonization efforts.]]>
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                    <title>BBVA shareholders back corporate management in 2019 with 99.4 percent of the votes</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/bbva-shareholders-back-corporate-management-in-2019-with-99-4-percent-of-the-votes/</link>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[Santiago Romero]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Coronavirus]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Shareholders' meeting]]>
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                            <![CDATA[BBVA shareholders have backed the Group’s corporate management in 2019 with 99.4 percent of the votes at the <a href="https://www.bbva.com/en/carlos-torres-vila-with-coronavirus-we-must-all-be-very-coordinated-to-mitigate-the-impact/">Annual General Meeting</a>, held on Friday in Bilbao. Quorum has been the highest in the bank’s history: 66.83 percent.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[BBVA shareholders have backed the Group’s corporate management in 2019 with 99.4 percent of the votes at the <a href="https://www.bbva.com/en/carlos-torres-vila-with-coronavirus-we-must-all-be-very-coordinated-to-mitigate-the-impact/">Annual General Meeting</a>, held on Friday in Bilbao. Quorum has been the highest in the bank’s history: 66.83 percent.]]>
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                    <title>Carlos Torres Vila: “With coronavirus, we must all be very coordinated to mitigate the impact”</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/economy-and-finance/carlos-torres-vila-with-coronavirus-we-must-all-be-very-coordinated-to-mitigate-the-impact/</link>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2020 11:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[david.corral]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Coronavirus]]>
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                            <![CDATA[<strong>Carlos Torres Vila, Group executive chairman</strong>
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 	<li><strong>Excellent figures:</strong> “In 2019 BBVA posted its highest net attributable profit of the past decade without one-offs”</li>
 	<li><strong>New strategic priorities:</strong> We want “to improve our clients’ financial health and help them transition toward a sustainable future”</li>
 	<li><strong>Dividend:</strong> BBVA is proposing at the AGM a complementary gross cash dividend of €0.16 per share. The total dividend for the year stands at €0.26 per share, which reflects a 36 percent of attributable profit, excluding the impact of the goodwill adjustment in the U.S.</li>
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<strong>Onur Genç, Chief executive officer</strong>
<ul>
 	<li><strong>Business model:</strong> “Once again, we have demonstrated the strength of our diversified model”</li>
 	<li><strong>Profitability:</strong> “We are number one in terms of profitability,” among 15 largest European banks</li>
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                            <![CDATA[<strong>Carlos Torres Vila, Group executive chairman</strong>
<ul>
 	<li><strong>Excellent figures:</strong> “In 2019 BBVA posted its highest net attributable profit of the past decade without one-offs”</li>
 	<li><strong>New strategic priorities:</strong> We want “to improve our clients’ financial health and help them transition toward a sustainable future”</li>
 	<li><strong>Dividend:</strong> BBVA is proposing at the AGM a complementary gross cash dividend of €0.16 per share. The total dividend for the year stands at €0.26 per share, which reflects a 36 percent of attributable profit, excluding the impact of the goodwill adjustment in the U.S.</li>
</ul>
<strong>Onur Genç, Chief executive officer</strong>
<ul>
 	<li><strong>Business model:</strong> “Once again, we have demonstrated the strength of our diversified model”</li>
 	<li><strong>Profitability:</strong> “We are number one in terms of profitability,” among 15 largest European banks</li>
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                    <title>"I am not permitted to comment anything about actions that are subject to a judicial investigation"</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/the-investigation-is-under-secrecy-order-i-cannot-and-i-should-not-comment-anything/</link>
                    <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2019 18:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[david.corral]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Corporate communication]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Statement from BBVA chairman Carlos Torres Vila at the opening of the course organized by the Spanish Association of Financial Journalists (APIE) at the Menéndez Pelayo International University in Santander.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Statement from BBVA chairman Carlos Torres Vila at the opening of the course organized by the Spanish Association of Financial Journalists (APIE) at the Menéndez Pelayo International University in Santander.]]>
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                    <title>BBVA rolls out new image in Switzerland</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/bbva-rolls-out-new-image-in-switzerland/</link>
                    <pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2019 23:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[Noemi Fernández Castro]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Communication]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Corporate information]]>
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                            <![CDATA[BBVA is unifying its brand across its footprint. Customers will see this change taking place progressively in the Group’s mobile apps, transactional websites, its almost 8,000 branches across the world and its corporate headquarters.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[BBVA is unifying its brand across its footprint. Customers will see this change taking place progressively in the Group’s mobile apps, transactional websites, its almost 8,000 branches across the world and its corporate headquarters.]]>
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                    <title>BBVA's transformation, embodied in its logo</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/bbvas-transformation-embodied-in-its-logo/</link>
                    <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2019 05:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
                    <dc:creator>
                        <![CDATA[Blanca González del Fresno]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Communication,marketing and advertising]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Institutional communication]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Marketing]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Creating Opportunities. This is the BBVA motto and the strategy behind the Group's rebranding. Launched across the bank’s footprint, the new logo is the "physical and tangible" element that represents – both internally and externally – the transformation undertaken by the Group.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Creating Opportunities. This is the BBVA motto and the strategy behind the Group's rebranding. Launched across the bank’s footprint, the new logo is the "physical and tangible" element that represents – both internally and externally – the transformation undertaken by the Group.]]>
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                    <title>Get to know what the new BBVA brand identity means to you</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/get-to-know-what-the-new-bbva-brand-identity-means-to-you/</link>
                    <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2019 05:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[Blanca González del Fresno]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Communication]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Institutional communication]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Why a change now? When will I receive a card with the new logo? Will my local branch change? What new services will be offered in my country? Will I see changes in the mobile banking app? If you don't want to miss out on what the new BBVA brand offers you, keep reading.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Why a change now? When will I receive a card with the new logo? Will my local branch change? What new services will be offered in my country? Will I see changes in the mobile banking app? If you don't want to miss out on what the new BBVA brand offers you, keep reading.]]>
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                    <title>BBVA names Javier Rodriguez Soler as BBVA Compass CEO and Country Manager for the U.S.</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/bbva-names-javier-rodriguez-soler-as-bbva-compass-ceo-and-country-manager-for-the-u-s/</link>
                    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2018 17:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
                    <dc:creator>
                        <![CDATA[Tristan Grimble]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Corporate communication]]>
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                            <![CDATA[The BBVA Group today named Javier Rodriguez Soler as CEO for BBVA Compass and country manager for the Group’s U.S. operations, following the appointment of Onur Genç as BBVA Group CEO. The appointment will provide continuity to the execution of the bank’s current strategy and continue the strong momentum the bank has built in the U.S.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[The BBVA Group today named Javier Rodriguez Soler as CEO for BBVA Compass and country manager for the Group’s U.S. operations, following the appointment of Onur Genç as BBVA Group CEO. The appointment will provide continuity to the execution of the bank’s current strategy and continue the strong momentum the bank has built in the U.S.]]>
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