Fintech
Fintech
BBVA has reached an important milestone in its continued drive towards technologically powered banking, with 50% of its customers now using its digital channels.
Professional financing is essential for the survival of startups. Attracting funding requires being very well aware of what investors want and need.
Earlier this month, a group of UK banks - including RBS, Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, and Santander - combined with fintech firms and the British Standards Institute to announce a new set of guidelines designed to improve collaboration between fintech startups and financial institutions. Elena Alfaro, Head of Data and Open Innovation, Client Solutions at BBVA, reflects on the part that banks themselves also have to play in making collaboration work.
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Elena Alfaro
It has been a stellar year for BBVA’s Open Innovation team, with hundreds more start-ups now connected to the bank and collaboration in full swing.
It’s time for holiday shopping and a bit more free time. The perfect time to recommend several books that help explain the digital revolution and its context.
Atom and solarisBank, two companies in which BBVA holds a significant stake, included in KPMG’s ‘Fintech 100’ list. The report ranks the leading 50 'Established' fintech companies across the globe, as well as the most captivating 50 'Emerging Stars' with exciting, new products and solutions.
According to BBVA Next Technologies’ experts, these are four of the emerging platforms of the blockchain technology to watch out for next year.