In an interview on Onda Cero radio today, the chairman & CEO of BBVA, Francisco González, said, “Turkey will be one of the bank’s best investments in the future.” BBVA announced an agreement last week to become a leading shareholder in Garanti, the largest Turkish bank in terms of market capitalization.

BBVA Continental has received an official endorsement as one of the ten companies on the Index of Good Corporate Governance for the period 2014-2015, according to the survey “La Voz del Mercado 2014” conducted by the Lima Stock Exchange and Ernst & Young (EY).

For the fifth year running BBVA Banca Privada has been named the best private bank in Spain in the 2014 edition of The Global Private Banking Awards held by the prestigious international banking journals The Banker, and PWM –part of the Financial Times Group.

This is the second occasion the bank has received this award from the Social Ecumenical Forum in recognition of "its commitment to education, through which 1.5 million people have benefited from education programs for society, and its program of grants for integration that promote access to quality education for children and young people in disadvantaged areas of Latin America”.

BBVA Corporate & Investment Banking has won four of the Infrastructure Awards granted by the magazine LatinFinance thanks to its participation in the funding of the Chaglla hydroelectric project and the Transportadora Callao.

BBVA has been selected as one of the winners of the WLMT awards. These awards are granted by the Human Resources consulting firm Intrama in collaboration with the Madrid Regional Government and the Spanish Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality. BBVA was chosen for genera!, its gender diversity website. Paloma Piqueras, global manager of BBVA Asset Management and representative of the Group's Diversity Plan, accepted the award at the offices of the Madrid Regional Government.