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Long gone are the days when banks would send canceled checks from the previous month’s transactions so  customers could balance their checkbooks and manage their accounts. Today, the proliferation of digital money movement means transferring of money in and out of bank accounts has become real-time and a daily process. The BBVA Compass Mobile Banking App makes daily account management an easier task with customizable real-time alert notifications.

After receiving all necessary approvals, BBVA has completed the £85.4m investment into Atom, announced in March this year. With this transaction, BBVA increases its stake in UK’s first bank built exclusively for smartphone or tablet to 39%.

When your debit or credit card is lost or stolen, it can take time and effort to report it as such - time that you might not have when trying to avoid fraudulent charges. With the BBVA Compass Mobile Banking App you are in control of your financial life, which means you can quickly and easily report your card lost or stolen, directly in the app.

At BBVA Compass, digital transformation has been taking place across the bank from Engineering to Talent & Culture. Leading the charge for the transformation of the bank’s products and services has been the bank’s Business Development unit, under the leadership of Pepe Olalla.

Having the BBVA Compass Mobile Banking App on your phone is like carrying the bank in your pocket. The many functionalities of the app mean that you are more in control of your financial life, and able to make decisions based on your needs. This is particularly true with the app’s patent-pending Payments and Transfers function.

BBVA Bancomer has been crowned as the most innovative bank in Latin America in this year’s edition of British publication Global Finance's The Innovators 2018 awards, which recognize the institutions that systematically identify new businesses and design new financial tools. With this award, the magazine acknowledges the institution’s value proposal, which includes a customer-centric data-based user-friendly design, developed in collaboration with the fintech ecosystem.

Generation T refers to those born from 2010 onwards. These are children who know the world through a digital screen and what is more important through touch. Hyperconnectivity, speed and instantaneousness are some of the words that go along with these children as they grow up.

BBVA has unveiled Valora View, the first app in the European Banking sector using augmented reality to help prospective buyers or renters find a home. With this new free service, available for both customers and non-customers of the bank, BBVA launches a tool that, harnessing the power of big data, is capable of providing users with recommended purchase or rent prices for a specific property. And not only that: The application can also provide advice on whether it makes more sense to buy or rent, and even run mortgage simulations.

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