Europe must press forward even more urgently with its key financial reforms to face current challenges with more resilience, said BBVA’s Executive Board Director José Manuel González-Páramo this morning at a conference in Rome.

Both the European Union and the Spanish government have rolled out funding programs for startups. Here is a brief guide that will keep you from missing out on any good opportunities.

One by one, the visitors are led into a brightly lit observation room at BBVA Compass Plaza in Houston. Their mission? To try to poke holes in the bank’s award-winning digital offerings.

BBVA once again anticipates the needs of clients and non-clients with the launch of BBVA Trader, a platform 100% designed and devoted to trading. On this website, the users most active in monitoring and market operations can find all the services and contents they are looking for in a trading platform.

The world changes constantly. Businesses and companies are evolving in the digital landscape, creating new ecosystems based on groundbreaking ways of looking at the world. The generational shift, from non-native to digital natives, is breaking free from established paradigms, promoting new ideas based on a new approach, focusing on ideas and creativity, on co-creation. Today, in a world where borders have faded, businesses are designed to generate a global impact through technology.

Soacha in Colombia receives 20-60 new families a week that are fleeing from the armed conflict that torments the country. In this context, the support of Bancamía (the entity of BBVA Microfinance Foundation in Colombia) to small entrepreneurs plays a key role in the area’s economic development. Francisco González, Chairman and CEO of BBVA, visited three of these small businesses and saw their work first hand.

‘Internet of me’, the trend towards content specialization based on user profiles, is becoming a pivotal strategy on which forward-looking companies are focusing. We analyze the current status, growth prospects, the reasons why it is becoming such a big issue and its connections with blooming technology trends.

Venture Solutions Architect in BBVA’s New Digital Business division, José Manuel De la Chica, advocates for financial technology companies and financial institutions to collaborate in order to move ahead in the digital transformation.

BBVA Compass hosted clients at the Millennium Biltmore hotel in Los Angeles last week for an invitation-only forum featuring Kevin Mitnick, the world’s most famous hacker.