BBVA remains the global mobile banking leader in 2019, according to ‘The Forrester Banking Wave™: Global MobileApps Summary, 2019’. BBVA’s mobile app combines “exceptional functionality with the best user experience.” Garanti BBVA, the Group’s Turkish franchise, is also in the report, which states that it is “one of the first banks to launch an in-app, voice-activated virtual agent.”

Atom bank, the U.K.’s first bank built exclusively for mobile, has today been awarded a £10 million grant to boost genuine competition in lending to SMEs. Atom will use the grant to help transform banking for small businesses and deliver an additional £3 billion of business financing by March 2024. Atom will also create 70 jobs in the North East of England.

‘Schedule your account’ is the new digital service BBVA is offering its customers on the app (Android e iPhone). With this tool, customers can activate, and customize, six settings to automatically perform certain tasks to manage their personal finances. They simply have to choose the most convenient way to manage their account balance or save, include the parameters to take into account, and the operations take place automatically. Luz Martín Manjón, Head of Digital Products at BBVA Spain, explains how this new tool works.

For more than 20 years Garanti BBVA has been investing in technology in order to ensure a personalized and simplified digital experience in every new product or service it offers its customers and clients. In collaboration with Google, the bank recently launched a ‘Universal App Campaign,’ aiming to increase the number of interactions in the Garanti BBVA Mobile app and to encourage customers to use the bank’s digital channels for their banking transactions.

The growth in usage in mobile banking across BBVA is continuing at pace, as new statistics from BBVA today show.

Garanti BBVA’s Mobile app is a good example of how the bank is making its customers’ lives easier. All these efforts contribute to the bank’s customer-centric focus by ensuring that its tailor-made services are available – any time and any place – to both its individual and corporate customers.

Any company can fall victim to this kind of crime in which criminals trick an employee authorized to give bank payment orders into performing a transaction for them. Financial institutions like BBVA never request sensitive information, such as passwords or personal data, by email or outside of the secure environment on Net Cash and BBVA.es. For organizations, the key to preventing this kind of fraud is to reinforce control systems and  exercise great caution.

BBVA has been twice honored by Javelin Strategy & Research, with the independent research firm naming the bank’s mobile banking app and online banking service as a leader in its 2019 Mobile and Online Banking Scorecards.

Garanti BBVA is leading the creation of value for its customers by delivering innovative products and services to the digital banking sector. Its mobile app Garanti BBVA Mobile was ranked the second best in Europe for the second year in a row by Forrester Research, one of the world’s leading research and consulting companies.

BBVA continues to lead the pack in European mobile banking for the third year in a row, according to independent Research Firm Forrester Research. Garanti bank, BBVA’s franchise in Turkey, also had the second highest overall score.

The final school bell has rung for a good portion of students across the U.S. – and if it hasn’t, it surely will soon. Summer plans are being made, and that could include a family vacation abroad to experience foreign lands and new cultures with loved ones.

An exceptional user experience and value added features are the keys to differentiating a banking application from its competition. These are the elements that held the most sway when, for the second consecutive year, the consulting firm Forrester chose BBVA’s app as the best banking app in the world and gave the Garanti BBVA app in Turkey the best in user experience.

Garanti Bank customers can now personalize their health insurance coverage on the Garanti Cep app. Customers can select the level of health coverage they prefer, adding or removing services as needed.

BBVA Compass Atascosita Branch Retail Executive Liz Zweifel recently said of the bank’s efforts around mobile engagement, “It’s important to make sure our customers understand we aren’t pushing them away, we just want them to have access to another resource and another connection.”

At BBVA Compass, mobile banking has a front-of-the-line position when it comes to digital engagement, thanks to a journey that began in the bank’s retail branches five years ago.

Not long ago, banks that offered mobile apps were few and those that did essentially offered a convenient way for customers to check their account balance. Today, choosing a bank with no mobile app would be a non-starter for most customers.

When it comes to designing customer interaction with online services – whether from a GPS navigator or through a mobile banking app – it is more and more common to design automated features that anticipate customer issues.

More customers now join BBVA via its award winning app in Spain than they do via other digital channels, the bank has revealed in the latest update to its digital transformation programme.

BBVA Compass launched BBVA Compass Financial Tools as part of its mobile app functionality in August 2018 and recently released numbers prove just how valuable customers found the addition.

U.K. digital banking disruptor Atom has signed up with the Bacs payment system to boost its offering and enable its customers to offer direct debits for the first time.

Garanti Bank is expanding its unique range of innovative products and services with the rollout of Garanti Stories, a new feature embedded in the Garanti Cep app. Garanti Stories offers services that go beyond traditional banking while fulfilling customers’ basic needs and expectations, delivering an experience similar to the stories on popular social media platforms such as Snapchat and Instagram.

BBVA has reached an important milestone in its continued drive towards technologically powered banking, with 50% of its customers now using its digital channels.

The holidays can be stressful for those who have a large number of names on their gift list. Not much time remains for those in the full swing of their shopping spree. As the pressure mounts to finish, any little bit helps.

If you use online or mobile banking, you already know how convenient it is to check your balance, pay a bill or confirm a transaction. But you may not be taking full advantage of all the benefits your mobile banking app can offer.

Atom bank, the UK’s first bank built for mobile and the country’s fastest growing mortgage lender, has agreed a multi-year partnership with leading fintech Thought Machine to put its next generation of personal and business banking products onto Thought Machine’s Vault platform.

Today is Cyber Monday, which means many people will be spending time online to find the perfect gift for a loved one, or maybe themselves. When paying for those gifts, in many cases credit cards will be front and center. If you’re shopping on Cyber Monday and using a credit card, you can worry a little less about things like reaching your credit limit or potential fraud with BBVA Compass Mobile Banking alerts.

Paying bills may be on the top of many people’s monthly to-do lists, but the number that count it among their favorite activities in a given month likely isn’t high. So, why not make it a little easier?

International publication Global Finance selected Garanti Bank as the ‘Best in Mobile Banking’ in the Western Europe category and the ‘Best Digital Bank in Turkey’, establishing the bank’s position as one of the world’s leading financial organizations this year.

The mobile banking app is the fastest-growing communication channel between banks and their customers today. For customers who use their banking app, it has become their preferred and most frequent channel of engagement. Still, most of the functionalities for banking apps are targeted towards servicing with limited new product sales capabilities. So, why don’t banks unleash the full potential of that digital channel?

The BBVA Compass Mobile Banking App is stacked with features and functionalities to make using the bank in your pocket easier, safer and more convenient than ever. But, using the app can be easier when paired with the language in which you’re most comfortable.

U.S. digital bank Simple, which is owned by BBVA, has announced the appointment of David Hijirida as the company’s next Chief Executive Officer. Hijirida, who joins from Amazon, takes over from Dickson Chu who was working as the interim CEO of the bank, and who will remain as the Executive Chairman of Simple’s Board of Directors.

The progress of BBVA´s digital transformation is continuing to drive the positive financial returns the business is seeing.

Budgeting. We all know we need to do it. At one point or another, chances are good we’ve been taught, taken courses or heard tips on how to budget. So, why do so many people still find it difficult?

To make customers’ lives easier through innovative products and services, Garanti Bankası has revamped its mobile app (Garanti Cep) and website for SMBs. They now provide a completely new user experience tailored to the financial status and needs of each SMB user.

Many times changing the PIN on your debit card means making a trip to a bank branch, ATM or calling customer service. With BBVA Compass Mobile Banking, it’s as easy as logging into your mobile app.

Garanti Bank won big at the 30th Crystal Apple Awards advertising event in Turkey. The bank took home five different awards, including a Special Award, a Great Prize, a Crystal, a Silver and a Bronze award.

BBVA is deploying its global development platform in Uruguay, marking a new milestone in the bank’s digital transformation. This initiative will make it possible to accelerate the delivery of mobile solutions, unifying design, functionality and features and user experience.

The BBVA Compass Mobile Banking App has made it easier than ever to take an active role in keeping your money safe and secure, with features that allow you to decide on alerts and enabling or disabling your card.

The bank brings digital transformation to its business customers with a financial aggregation service. BBVA One View is a real-time platform-agnostic service that allows businesses to control all their domestic accounts, credit accounts and cards from a single dashboard. This service, the first of its class in Spain, goes beyond financial aggregation. Leveraging Big Data technologies, it gathers and organizes information on bank accounts and other financial products, allowing companies to optimize their treasury activity and make decisions more efficiently.

Gone are the days where verifying your identity meant photocopying your ID or showing your face in person alongside your driver’s license. Identity verification is easier thanks to camera-enabled smartphones.

Peer-to-peer payments, or P2P, have become a popular way of quickly and easily paying family and friends using a mobile device or home computer.

Continuing to notch wins for its mobile banking app, BBVA Compass Mobile Banking was recently recognized as one of the top five banks in mobile deposit user experience in the 2018 Mobile Deposit Benchmark Report. The report, conducted by fintech and digital commerce research firm Futurion, was sponsored by Mitek, a global leader in mobile capture and digital identity verification solutions.

BBVA Compass last week announced that it had been named a leader in Customer Service and Ease of Use by Javelin Strategy & Research in their 2018 Mobile Banking Scorecard.

The BBVA Compass Mobile Banking App was named a leader in both the ease of use and the customer service categories in Javelin Strategy & Research’s 2018 Mobile Banking Scorecard, marking the fifth consecutive year the app has been recognized as a leader in mobile banking by the independent research firm.

Imagine a world where applying for a bank product is made possible by simply downloading the bank’s own mobile app, without having to go into a branch first – or ever.

The BBVA Compass Mobile Banking App is now in its ninth year, and the award-winning app continues to improve functionality with each new release, including its latest update announced last week.

For the first time in Spain, BBVA will allow products contracted by customers with other banking institutions to be added to its mobile banking app. The information will be included in Bconomy, the tool that examines the income and spending of users to provide an analysis of their financial health and a more complete view of the state of their finances.

The Mobile Monday series has been exploring the different features and functionality of the BBVA Compass Mobile Banking App. But, did you know that there is another way to discover the many features of the award-winning app? The BBVA Compass Mobile Banking App’s convenient assistance center has the answers you need.