BBVA enables customers to manage security levels on their smartphones from a single point in the app. Users can configure the “security area” from the menu, and they can disable functionality for all their accounts and contracted products or even hide them from view. This is how BBVA Spain’s app, recently recognized for the second year in a row by Forrester Research as the best in Europe, has become a veritable remote control for mobile customers. Users can configure all the app's permission settings and enable travel mode.

Getting paid to shop may sound like a dream, but Simple Cash Back rewards makes it a reality. Available through the BBVA Compass Mobile Banking App, BBVA Wallet or Online Banking, the feature allows customers with a consumer BBVA Compass debit or credit card to earn cash back on purchases.

Mobile banking in 2018 contains a vast amount of components and resources, from real-time personal loans, starting your own account, and money transfers to other easy functions that fit perfectly with today’s on-the-go lifestyle.

The ripple effects from the Office of the Comptroller of Currency announcing it would accept applications for banking licenses from fintechs are still being felt.

BBVA’s efforts to foster product sales through its digital channels have been well received by customers. Customer adoption of digital channels -and sales across these channels- have seen increasing growth month after month.

There has been a healthy amount of debate regarding a national fintech charter that was announced last week by the Office of the Comptroller. The U.S. Treasury has also been in the spotlight among columnists in the financial industry.

Advertising will experience stable growth in the next five years, developing toward a more digital and mobile business, touched by fewer hands.

Updating the preferred contact information on file with your bank shouldn’t be a long, tedious or frustrating process that involves weaving your way through an automated phone system. With the BBVA Compass Mobile Banking App, it’s not.

The fintech world boasted big news this week.

BBVA’s Garanti Bank was singled out as the only Turkish bank among the ‘Most Honored’ financial institutions in this year’s Emerging EMEA Executive Team: Leaders survey by Institutional Investor Magazine (IIM). Garanti CEO Fuat Erbil and IR Head Handan Saygin were also recognized.