BBVA will be taking part in the Money20/20 Asia event in Singapore this week, with a range of involvement ranging from keynote speeches to a fintech start-up competition.

At this point, it’s not surprising that apps that are spontaneously installed on our devices use our personal data in a number of ways.

The BBVA Group has joined a Series B funding round in digital platform solarisBank, a pioneer in the ‘banking as a service’ concept.

BBVA’s digitization process in South America solidly advances. At the end of January 2018, 49.9% of customers in South America interacted with the bank via digital channels. This represents an increase of 26% from last year’s figures. The increase stands at 43% if we reference customers who connect using mobile devices. “BBVA’s mobile banking has seen such intense growth that it indicates where the consumption habits of the bank’s customers are going. That’s where we’ve been headed for some time now,” explains Antonio Bravo, director of Business Development and Digital banking for BBVA South America.

Garanti continues to break new ground by making pension fund product available through its digital channels Garanti Internet and Garanti Mobile. This digital freeway enhances the speed and ease in which customers can carry out pension product transactions.

BBVA is to increase its stake in UK digital bank Atom, after the Global Financial Group agreed to inject more capital into the mobile focussed business.

There is no greater source of pride in the world than to see our children get ahead in life. Their achievements, their charms… It can be marvelous to share each moment of their progress with family members, friends and work colleagues. But is it a good idea to do so on social networks? Is this the right place to share this information?

Some 42% of BBVA Spain’s sales were carried out through digital channels in January 2018, a record figure that far surpasses the same period a year earlier (24.5%) and is almost four times that of only two years ago (11%).

At BBVA Labs, we have been using Akka Actors in different projects for a long time due to its inherent computation distribution capabilities in high load scenarios, using actors as stateless or stateful units of execution that send messages among them in an asynchronous fashion.

In this post, we will cover some of the weak points of working with untyped classic actors and we will show what are the benefits that Akka Typed brings to the scene. Finally, we will present a brief description of session types and the Process DSL API created by Dr. Roland Kuhn. All examples are written using the Scala API.

Fair-trade coffee, quality guarantee, ecological tomatoes… consumers read the labels on the things they eat. But is there any way of checking that what they say is correct? In order to do so, you would need a register of the processes to which the product has been submitted, something blockchain can do.