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                    <title>BBVA places £600 million senior non-preferred bond amid strong demand</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/economy-and-finance/bbva-issues-six-year-senior-non-preferred-bond-in-sterling/</link>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 07:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[Miguel Rodríguez Canfranc]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Fixed income]]>
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                            <![CDATA[BBVA on Wednesday placed £600 million (€698 million) in a senior non-preferred bond issuance. Demand reached as much as £1.25 billion. The bond has a six-year maturity, until September 2032, with an early redemption option in September 2031. The price was set at UKT (the UK sovereign bond) +100 basis points, below the initial price guidance of UKT+115 basis points. BBVA, NatWest and Nomura acted as bookrunners.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[BBVA on Wednesday placed £600 million (€698 million) in a senior non-preferred bond issuance. Demand reached as much as £1.25 billion. The bond has a six-year maturity, until September 2032, with an early redemption option in September 2031. The price was set at UKT (the UK sovereign bond) +100 basis points, below the initial price guidance of UKT+115 basis points. BBVA, NatWest and Nomura acted as bookrunners.]]>
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                    <title>BBVA places €1.25 billion senior preferred green bond with demand twice the amount issue</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/economy-and-finance/bbva-issues-seven-year-senior-preferred-green-bond/</link>
                    <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[Miguel Rodríguez Canfranc]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Fixed income]]>
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                            <![CDATA[BBVA has placed a €1.25 billion senior preferred green bond this Tuesday, maturing in September 2033. The price was set at mid-swaps +75 basis points, significantly below the initial price guidance of mid-swaps +100 basis points. The bookrunners were BBVA, Danske, ING, Natixis and UBS. Demand reached €2.8 billion.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[BBVA has placed a €1.25 billion senior preferred green bond this Tuesday, maturing in September 2033. The price was set at mid-swaps +75 basis points, significantly below the initial price guidance of mid-swaps +100 basis points. The bookrunners were BBVA, Danske, ING, Natixis and UBS. Demand reached €2.8 billion.]]>
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                    <title>BBVA launches its partnership with Inter and unveils new offers in Italy</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/innovation/bbva-launches-its-partnership-with-inter-and-unveils-new-offers-in-italy/</link>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[Joan Llop]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Digital banking]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Innovation]]>
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                            <![CDATA[FC Internazionale Milano and BBVA have officially presented their partnership at a media event held at the club’s headquarters in Milan. The event also coincides with the launch of new BBVA offers in Italy, where the bank is now approaching one million customers.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[FC Internazionale Milano and BBVA have officially presented their partnership at a media event held at the club’s headquarters in Milan. The event also coincides with the launch of new BBVA offers in Italy, where the bank is now approaching one million customers.]]>
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                    <title>Why the Future of AI Infrastructure Depends on Energy</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/enterprises/why-the-future-of-ai-infrastructure-depends-on-energy/</link>
                    <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 05:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[O020755]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Data Centers]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Economy and Finance]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Real Estate]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Artificial intelligence is fueling an unprecedented surge in demand for digital infrastructure. But increasingly, the defining challenge facing the sector is not computing power alone. It is energy.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Artificial intelligence is fueling an unprecedented surge in demand for digital infrastructure. But increasingly, the defining challenge facing the sector is not computing power alone. It is energy.]]>
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                    <title>Garanti BBVA Wins Two AI in Finance Awards for Personalized Financial Advice</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/tr/economy-and-finance/garanti-bbva-wins-two-ai-in-finance-awards-for-personalized-financial-advice/</link>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[Patricia Casas]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Awards]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Economy and Finance]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Garanti BBVA has won two awards at Global Finance’s AI in Finance Awards 2026: “Best Personalized Financial Advice in Türkiye” and “Best Personalized Financial Advice in Western Europe.” The awards recognize the bank’s AI-powered approach to providing personalized financial advice. They also qualify Garanti BBVA for the global Round II judging, with the winners to be announced in Singapore in October.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Garanti BBVA has won two awards at Global Finance’s AI in Finance Awards 2026: “Best Personalized Financial Advice in Türkiye” and “Best Personalized Financial Advice in Western Europe.” The awards recognize the bank’s AI-powered approach to providing personalized financial advice. They also qualify Garanti BBVA for the global Round II judging, with the winners to be announced in Singapore in October.]]>
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                    <title>Europe in the Race for Capital: The Opportunity of the Savings and Investment Union</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/economy-and-finance/europe-in-the-race-for-capital-the-opportunity-of-the-savings-and-investment-union/</link>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 05:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[María Prados]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Finance]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Financial regulations]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Investment bank]]>
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                                                                <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bbva.com/?post_type=economyfinance&#038;p=1175376</guid>
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                            <![CDATA[In an <a href="https://cincodias.elpais.com/opinion/2026-08-22/europa-en-la-carrera-por-el-capital-la-oportunidad-de-la-union-del-ahorro-y-la-inversion.html">article published in Cinco Días</a>, <strong data-start="184" data-end="318">Juan Blasco, Head of Institutional Business at BBVA CIB and Board Chair of the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME)</strong>, examines the role of the Savings and Investments Union (SIU) as a key lever to channel European savings into productive investment, deepen capital markets, and strengthen Europe’s competitiveness and growth potential.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[In an <a href="https://cincodias.elpais.com/opinion/2026-08-22/europa-en-la-carrera-por-el-capital-la-oportunidad-de-la-union-del-ahorro-y-la-inversion.html">article published in Cinco Días</a>, <strong data-start="184" data-end="318">Juan Blasco, Head of Institutional Business at BBVA CIB and Board Chair of the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME)</strong>, examines the role of the Savings and Investments Union (SIU) as a key lever to channel European savings into productive investment, deepen capital markets, and strengthen Europe’s competitiveness and growth potential.]]>
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                    <title>BBVA places $2.3 billion in a three-tranche issuance with demand exceeding three times the amount issued</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/economy-and-finance/bbva-places-2-3-billion-in-a-three-tranche-issuance-with-demand-exceeding-three-times-the-amount-issued/</link>
                    <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[Javier Díaz Jiménez]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Corporate information]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Debt issuance]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Economy and Finance]]>
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                            <![CDATA[BBVA closed a $2.3 billion senior non-preferred (SNP) debt issuance on Tuesday, structured in three tranches: two three-year tranches — one $1 billion fixed-rate tranche and a $300 million floating-rate tranche — and a third $1 billion fixed-rate tranche with a five-year maturity.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[BBVA closed a $2.3 billion senior non-preferred (SNP) debt issuance on Tuesday, structured in three tranches: two three-year tranches — one $1 billion fixed-rate tranche and a $300 million floating-rate tranche — and a third $1 billion fixed-rate tranche with a five-year maturity.]]>
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                    <title>The Odyssey of Regulating and Developing AI</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/economy-and-finance/the-odyssey-of-regulating-and-developing-ai/</link>
                    <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[Javier Díaz Jiménez]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Economy and Finance]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Financial regulations]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Financial system]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Last July witnessed the convergence of two events that, at first glance, appear to have nothing in common: the release of <strong><a href="https://www.odysseymovie.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christopher Nolan’s <i>The Odyssey</i></a></strong> and the European Union’s decision to postpone the implementation of much of the <strong><a href="https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/artificial-intelligence-act/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AI Act until December 2027</a></strong>. <strong><a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L_202601744" target="_blank" rel="noopener">With the delay announced in July</a></strong>, Europe’s push for trustworthy AI, launched back in 2017, <strong>will have spanned an entire decade</strong>—exactly as long as it took Odysseus to return to Ithaca following the Trojan War.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Last July witnessed the convergence of two events that, at first glance, appear to have nothing in common: the release of <strong><a href="https://www.odysseymovie.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christopher Nolan’s <i>The Odyssey</i></a></strong> and the European Union’s decision to postpone the implementation of much of the <strong><a href="https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/artificial-intelligence-act/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AI Act until December 2027</a></strong>. <strong><a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L_202601744" target="_blank" rel="noopener">With the delay announced in July</a></strong>, Europe’s push for trustworthy AI, launched back in 2017, <strong>will have spanned an entire decade</strong>—exactly as long as it took Odysseus to return to Ithaca following the Trojan War.]]>
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                    <title>Scaling the Digital Backbone: How BBVA CIB Is Positioning for the Next Wave of Data Center Growth</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/enterprises/scaling-the-digital-backbone-how-bbva-cib-is-positioning-for-the-next-wave-of-data-center-growth/</link>
                    <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 04:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[O020755]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Advisory]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Data Centers]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Financing for companies]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Artificial intelligence is triggering one of the largest infrastructure investment cycles in modern economic history. Increasingly, the race is not only about technology. It is about power, capital and global connectivity.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Artificial intelligence is triggering one of the largest infrastructure investment cycles in modern economic history. Increasingly, the race is not only about technology. It is about power, capital and global connectivity.]]>
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                    <title>Jürgen von der Lehr (BBVA Germany): "We want to become primary bank for customers in Germany”</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/economy-and-finance/jurgen-von-der-lehr-bbva-germany-we-want-to-become-primary-bank-for-customers-in-germany/</link>
                    <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
                    <dc:creator>
                        <![CDATA[María Prados]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Digital banking]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Jürgen von der Lehr, the new Head of Digital Banks at BBVA in Germany, takes stock of the bank’s first year in the country and highlights that BBVA has succeeded not only in attracting customers, but also in retaining them, with 60% of customers active on a monthly basis. The new executive, <a href="https://www.bbva.com/en/innovation/bbva-appoints-jurgen-von-der-lehr-as-head-of-its-digital-bank-in-germany/">appointed last May</a>, explains that the ambition is to build a universal digital bank, progressively expanding its range of products and services to become its customers’ primary bank. “Our goal is not growth for growth's sake. We want to progressively become the bank of choice for customers looking for banking that is simple, transparent and ready for the future,” Von der Lehr says in this interview.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Jürgen von der Lehr, the new Head of Digital Banks at BBVA in Germany, takes stock of the bank’s first year in the country and highlights that BBVA has succeeded not only in attracting customers, but also in retaining them, with 60% of customers active on a monthly basis. The new executive, <a href="https://www.bbva.com/en/innovation/bbva-appoints-jurgen-von-der-lehr-as-head-of-its-digital-bank-in-germany/">appointed last May</a>, explains that the ambition is to build a universal digital bank, progressively expanding its range of products and services to become its customers’ primary bank. “Our goal is not growth for growth's sake. We want to progressively become the bank of choice for customers looking for banking that is simple, transparent and ready for the future,” Von der Lehr says in this interview.]]>
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