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                    <title>The importance and benefits of getting vaccinated against COVID-19</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/the-importance-and-benefits-of-getting-vaccinated-against-covid-19/</link>
                    <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2021 07:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[Santiago Romero]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Coronavirus]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Current news]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Health]]>
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                            <![CDATA[The pandemic has been one of the greatest health crises in recorded history. Thanks to rapid advances in science and technology, the light at the end of the tunnel is getting closer. Major vaccination efforts are currently underway to immunize the world's population. According to data from health authorities compiled by <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Our World in Data</a>, 39.7% of the world's population has received at least one dose, while, as of today, <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations?country=OWID_WRL" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">almost 2.1 billion people across the globe</a> are fully vaccinated.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[The pandemic has been one of the greatest health crises in recorded history. Thanks to rapid advances in science and technology, the light at the end of the tunnel is getting closer. Major vaccination efforts are currently underway to immunize the world's population. According to data from health authorities compiled by <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Our World in Data</a>, 39.7% of the world's population has received at least one dose, while, as of today, <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations?country=OWID_WRL" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">almost 2.1 billion people across the globe</a> are fully vaccinated.]]>
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                    <title>Key levers to help clients navigate the post-COVID-19 era</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/opinion/key-levers-to-help-customers-navigate-the-post-covid-19-era/</link>
                    <pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2021 00:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[Alexandra Rojas Rodríguez]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Coronavirus]]>
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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[Transformation]]>
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                            <![CDATA[One of BBVA's main priorities is to always put the customer at the center of its strategy and activity. In the midst of the current crisis, this is especially important in the wholesale banking world serving large and medium-sized companies. José Ramón Vizmanos, Head of the Global Client Coverage at BBVA Corporate &amp; Investment Banking (CIB), highlights the main areas of work that the bank focuses its support for large clients.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[One of BBVA's main priorities is to always put the customer at the center of its strategy and activity. In the midst of the current crisis, this is especially important in the wholesale banking world serving large and medium-sized companies. José Ramón Vizmanos, Head of the Global Client Coverage at BBVA Corporate &amp; Investment Banking (CIB), highlights the main areas of work that the bank focuses its support for large clients.]]>
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                    <title>One year later: those leading the fight against COVID-19 tell their story</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/one-year-later-those-leading-the-fight-against-covid-19-tell-their-story/</link>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2021 01:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[E030493]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Coronavirus]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Responsible banking]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Social affairs]]>
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                            <![CDATA[One year after the outbreak of the health crisis in Spain, we spoke to some of the leaders in the fight against the virus to find out how aid was mobilized. In the case of science, researchers consider this aid “essential for the research of this pandemic.” Three and a half million people have benefited from the global plan that BBVA launched in March 2020, <a href="https://www.bbva.com/es/35-millones-de-personas-se-han-beneficiado-de-las-ayudas-sociales-de-bbva-frente-a-la-covid-19/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">‘Social Response to COVID-19’</a>. The money has been used to purchase medical equipment, support vulnerable groups and for research on the disease.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[One year after the outbreak of the health crisis in Spain, we spoke to some of the leaders in the fight against the virus to find out how aid was mobilized. In the case of science, researchers consider this aid “essential for the research of this pandemic.” Three and a half million people have benefited from the global plan that BBVA launched in March 2020, <a href="https://www.bbva.com/es/35-millones-de-personas-se-han-beneficiado-de-las-ayudas-sociales-de-bbva-frente-a-la-covid-19/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">‘Social Response to COVID-19’</a>. The money has been used to purchase medical equipment, support vulnerable groups and for research on the disease.]]>
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                    <title>3.5 million people have benefited from BBVA’s social support initiatives against COVID-19</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/3-5-million-people-have-benefited-from-bbvas-social-support-initiatives-against-covid-19/</link>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2021 06:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[XE91577]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Coronavirus]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Responsible banking]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Sustainable Development Goals]]>
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                            <![CDATA[In 2020, BBVA launched its 'COVID-19 Social Response Plan' with €35.7 million to help society at large. The funds were primarily used to purchase medical equipment to support public health systems. In addition, the bank collaborated with a variety of different organizations to support vulnerable groups, and promoted research on the disease and its side effects. More than 3.5 million people directly benefited from these initiatives, rolled out on top of another batch of measures implemented to support clients and customers, including payment deferrals and government backed loans.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[In 2020, BBVA launched its 'COVID-19 Social Response Plan' with €35.7 million to help society at large. The funds were primarily used to purchase medical equipment to support public health systems. In addition, the bank collaborated with a variety of different organizations to support vulnerable groups, and promoted research on the disease and its side effects. More than 3.5 million people directly benefited from these initiatives, rolled out on top of another batch of measures implemented to support clients and customers, including payment deferrals and government backed loans.]]>
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                    <title>Doctor Larraga dispels misinformation regarding coronavirus vaccines</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/doctor-larraga-dispels-misinformation-regarding-coronavirus-vaccines/</link>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2021 09:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[cristobal.baeza]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Coronavirus]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Health]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Sciences]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Vicente Larraga, research professor at the Vaccines and Gene Expression Unit of <a href="https://www.cib.csic.es/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CSIC Biological Research Center</a>, participated in a videoconference for BBVA employees, where he answered their questions about current vaccines against COVID-19. Larraga is a doctor and honorary professor of research at the Margarita Salas Biological Research Center and has been a member of the jury for the BBVA Foundation's Frontiers of Knowledge awards.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Vicente Larraga, research professor at the Vaccines and Gene Expression Unit of <a href="https://www.cib.csic.es/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CSIC Biological Research Center</a>, participated in a videoconference for BBVA employees, where he answered their questions about current vaccines against COVID-19. Larraga is a doctor and honorary professor of research at the Margarita Salas Biological Research Center and has been a member of the jury for the BBVA Foundation's Frontiers of Knowledge awards.]]>
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                    <title>BBVA’s COVID measures: How the bank acted in the face of the pandemic</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/coronavirus-what-is-bbva-doing-to-help-citizens/</link>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2020 02:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[Carmen Álvarez]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Banking]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Coronavirus]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Financial products]]>
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                            <![CDATA[In 2020, BBVA took a step forward to protect its employees and support its customers and society as a whole, to cope with the COVID-19 crisis. In a year marked by the virus, the bank has launched initiatives across the world to alleviate the financial burden of those worst hit by the pandemic and provide funding for the economic recovery.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[In 2020, BBVA took a step forward to protect its employees and support its customers and society as a whole, to cope with the COVID-19 crisis. In a year marked by the virus, the bank has launched initiatives across the world to alleviate the financial burden of those worst hit by the pandemic and provide funding for the economic recovery.]]>
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                    <title>BBVA Next Technologies, winner of the APN Social Impact Partner Award of the Year</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/bbva-next-technologies-winner-of-the-apn-social-impact-partner-award-of-the-year/</link>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2020 07:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[Carlota González]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Awards]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Coronavirus]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Software]]>
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                            <![CDATA[This award recognizes BBVA Next Technologies’ commitment using technology to face COVID-19 crisis.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[This award recognizes BBVA Next Technologies’ commitment using technology to face COVID-19 crisis.]]>
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                    <title>Carlos Torres Vila: “Public-private collaboration is fundamental to making investment decisions and generating prosperity”</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/economy-and-finance/carlos-torres-vila-public-private-collaboration-is-fundamental-to-making-investment-decisions-and-generating-prosperity/</link>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[E030493]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Carlos Torres Vila]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Coronavirus]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Macroeconomics analysis]]>
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                            <![CDATA[BBVA’s chairman participated this Tuesday in the first edition of the Expansión International Economic Forum, organized by the financial newspaper Expansión and the international forum, the European House-Ambrosetti, in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid.  “Public-private collaboration can leverage private initiatives to make investment decisions and generate prosperity,” said Carlos Torres Vila. In this regard, he feels that “the work of the public sector is to attract private investment with appropriate incentive schemes that manage to multiply European funds,” and in this process, “banks can play a key role” to channel the funds, analyze the projects being financed and strengthen their effect on the economy with their financing.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[BBVA’s chairman participated this Tuesday in the first edition of the Expansión International Economic Forum, organized by the financial newspaper Expansión and the international forum, the European House-Ambrosetti, in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid.  “Public-private collaboration can leverage private initiatives to make investment decisions and generate prosperity,” said Carlos Torres Vila. In this regard, he feels that “the work of the public sector is to attract private investment with appropriate incentive schemes that manage to multiply European funds,” and in this process, “banks can play a key role” to channel the funds, analyze the projects being financed and strengthen their effect on the economy with their financing.]]>
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                    <title>PPP Forgiveness Series, Part 4: Final advice</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/ppp-forgiveness-series-part-4-final-advice/</link>
                    <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2020 20:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[al.ortiz]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Coronavirus]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Entrepreneurship &amp; Startups]]>
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                                <![CDATA[SMEs]]>
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                            <![CDATA[In the last part of the BBVA USA Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Forgiveness Series, final tips and advice are given, based on the frequently asked questions submitted from actual small business owners who received a PPP loan. Questions were submitted as part of the <a href="https://www.bbvausa.com/special/covid19-small-business/loan-forgiveness.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BBVA USA Forgiveness Webinar</a>, developed to walk small businesses through the forgiveness process.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[In the last part of the BBVA USA Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Forgiveness Series, final tips and advice are given, based on the frequently asked questions submitted from actual small business owners who received a PPP loan. Questions were submitted as part of the <a href="https://www.bbvausa.com/special/covid19-small-business/loan-forgiveness.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BBVA USA Forgiveness Webinar</a>, developed to walk small businesses through the forgiveness process.]]>
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                    <title>PPP Forgiveness Series, Part 3: A visual timeline</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/ppp-forgiveness-series-part-3-a-visual-timeline/</link>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2020 20:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[al.ortiz]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Coronavirus]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Entrepreneurship &amp; Startups]]>
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                                <![CDATA[SMEs]]>
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                                                                <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bbva.com/?p=792532</guid>
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                            <![CDATA[Parts 1 and 2 of the BBVA USA Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Forgiveness Series detailed two key pieces of the entire process: <a href="https://www.bbva.com/en/ppp-forgiveness-series-part-1-lenders-responsibilities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The lender’s responsibilities</a> and the <a href="https://www.bbva.com/en/ppp-forgiveness-series-part-2-borrowers-responsibilities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">borrower’s responsibilities.</a> The details of these topics can be found in the main source of the Forgiveness Series: the <a href="https://www.bbvausa.com/special/covid19-small-business/loan-forgiveness.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BBVA USA Forgiveness Webinar</a>, a comprehensive <a href="https://www.bbva.com/en/bbva-usas-new-ppp-forgiveness-webinar-hopes-to-clear-the-murky-waters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">look into the PPP that untangles frequent questions. </a>]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Parts 1 and 2 of the BBVA USA Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Forgiveness Series detailed two key pieces of the entire process: <a href="https://www.bbva.com/en/ppp-forgiveness-series-part-1-lenders-responsibilities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The lender’s responsibilities</a> and the <a href="https://www.bbva.com/en/ppp-forgiveness-series-part-2-borrowers-responsibilities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">borrower’s responsibilities.</a> The details of these topics can be found in the main source of the Forgiveness Series: the <a href="https://www.bbvausa.com/special/covid19-small-business/loan-forgiveness.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BBVA USA Forgiveness Webinar</a>, a comprehensive <a href="https://www.bbva.com/en/bbva-usas-new-ppp-forgiveness-webinar-hopes-to-clear-the-murky-waters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">look into the PPP that untangles frequent questions. </a>]]>
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