Fifty-years ago today on June 27th, 1967 the world of retail banking changed in a significant way.

BBVA CEO Carlos Torres Vila said that BBVA “wants to give its customers and clients the best service by using innovation to transform and disrupt its business as it works to bring the age of opportunity to everyone.” This was the core message the BBVA CEO delivered in a keynote speech to a packed audience at the Money 20/20 event in Copenhagen - the leading fintech event in Europe.

The latest data published by the Spanish National Institute of Statistics (INE) indicate that 408,384 babies were born in 2016 – 11,906 fewer than the previous year, which represents a 2.8% decline. Since 2008, when the greatest number of births was registered of the past 30 years, with 519,779, the number has dropped by 21.4%.

Propel Venture Partners announced its participation as a lead investor in a funding round for EaseCentral, a platform for managing health insurance for small- and medium-sized companies (SMEs) in the United States.

Market Research Future’s latest report predicts that the digital banking market will grow at a compounded annual rate of 8% until 2022. The report indicates that this growth is due to factors such as easy access, availability, convenience, and quick and efficient transactions, among others.

65.6 million people in the world had been forcefully displaced from their homes in 2016 due to war, violence or persecution. This represents a 300,000 increase from the previous year, according to data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).