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                    <title>BBVA, Banco Santander and CaixaBank launch Fraudfense Check to strengthen the banking sector’s fight against financial crime</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/innovation/bbva-banco-santander-and-caixabank-launch-fraudfense-check-to-strengthen-the-banking-sectors-fight-against-financial-crime/</link>
                    <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[maria.ciriza]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Cybersecurity]]>
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                            <![CDATA[<a href="https://www.fraudfense.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>FrauDfense</strong></a>, a company owned by BBVA, Banco Santander and CaixaBank, today announces the go-live of FrauDfense Check, its first operational service. This initiative highlights the pioneering and innovative role of the three institutions in promoting sector-wide collaboration models, positioning the Spanish financial industry as an international benchmark in fraud prevention.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[<a href="https://www.fraudfense.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>FrauDfense</strong></a>, a company owned by BBVA, Banco Santander and CaixaBank, today announces the go-live of FrauDfense Check, its first operational service. This initiative highlights the pioneering and innovative role of the three institutions in promoting sector-wide collaboration models, positioning the Spanish financial industry as an international benchmark in fraud prevention.]]>
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                    <title>AI on both sides of cybersecurity: ally and threat in the digital world</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/innovation/ai-on-both-sides-of-cybersecurity-ally-and-threat-in-the-digital-world/</link>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 08:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[Patricia Casas]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Cybersecurity]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Transformation]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Artificial intelligence is neither good nor bad in itself, but, as with any tool, it all depends on how you use it. In fact, in cybersecurity it has a dual role: while security teams use its capabilities to bolster defenses, cybercriminals use it to hone their attacks.
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                            <![CDATA[Artificial intelligence is neither good nor bad in itself, but, as with any tool, it all depends on how you use it. In fact, in cybersecurity it has a dual role: while security teams use its capabilities to bolster defenses, cybercriminals use it to hone their attacks.
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                    <title>Garanti BBVA renews its Tier IV Gold certification for technological excellence</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/innovation/garanti-bbva-renews-its-tier-iv-gold-certification-for-technological-excellence/</link>
                    <pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 08:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[Patricia Casas]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Cybersecurity]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Garanti BBVA]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Innovation]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Garanti BBVA, one of Türkiye’s leading banks with its investments in technology, has once again earned Tier IV Certification of Operational Sustainability – Gold TCOS from Uptime Institute, the highest certification for data center infrastructure worldwide. With this achievement, Garanti BBVA’s data center is now one of only 24 in the world to boast this accolade.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Garanti BBVA, one of Türkiye’s leading banks with its investments in technology, has once again earned Tier IV Certification of Operational Sustainability – Gold TCOS from Uptime Institute, the highest certification for data center infrastructure worldwide. With this achievement, Garanti BBVA’s data center is now one of only 24 in the world to boast this accolade.]]>
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                    <title>BBVA, the most transparent Ibex 35 company in cybersecurity</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/innovation/bbva-the-most-transparent-ibex-35-company-in-cybersecurity/</link>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[María Prados]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Current news]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Cybersecurity]]>
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                            <![CDATA[BBVA ranks first in the ‘4th Cybersecurity Transparency Report’ prepared by Watch &amp; Act Protection Service, which is based on public information on Spanish Ibex35 companies.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[BBVA ranks first in the ‘4th Cybersecurity Transparency Report’ prepared by Watch &amp; Act Protection Service, which is based on public information on Spanish Ibex35 companies.]]>
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                    <title>Garanti BBVA launches Türkiye’s first biometric credit card</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/innovation/garanti-bbva-launches-turkiyes-first-biometric-credit-card/</link>
                    <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2024 07:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[María Prados]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Cybersecurity]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Garanti BBVA]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Innovation]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Garanti BBVA, a leader in digital payment innovation in Türkiye, has introduced the country's first biometric verification card, the Bonus Platinum Biometric Card. This groundbreaking product, described as a "game-changing technology" in payment systems, enables users to make quick, unencrypted, and secure payments by scanning their fingerprints. It also allows for limitless secure contactless payments, setting a new standard in the industry.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Garanti BBVA, a leader in digital payment innovation in Türkiye, has introduced the country's first biometric verification card, the Bonus Platinum Biometric Card. This groundbreaking product, described as a "game-changing technology" in payment systems, enables users to make quick, unencrypted, and secure payments by scanning their fingerprints. It also allows for limitless secure contactless payments, setting a new standard in the industry.]]>
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                    <title>Digital identity: biometrics as a verification method</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/innovation/digital-identity-biometrics-as-a-verification-method/</link>
                    <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 00:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
                    <dc:creator>
                        <![CDATA[Maribel Muñoz]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Cybersecurity]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Innovation]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Technology]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Digital channels have become the main way banks interact with their customers, both to check information and to carry out any kind of transaction. In this context, biometrics are gaining ground as they are a safe way to verify that customers are who they say they are. “At BBVA, there are over 40 use cases on a group level in which customer identity must be identified by biometrics, one of the most secure ways to prevent fraud,” said Natalia Ortega, Global Head of <a href="https://www.bbva.com/en/innovation/bbva-spearheading-the-creation-of-a-global-financial-crime-prevention-unit/">Financial Crime Prevention at BBVA</a>.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Digital channels have become the main way banks interact with their customers, both to check information and to carry out any kind of transaction. In this context, biometrics are gaining ground as they are a safe way to verify that customers are who they say they are. “At BBVA, there are over 40 use cases on a group level in which customer identity must be identified by biometrics, one of the most secure ways to prevent fraud,” said Natalia Ortega, Global Head of <a href="https://www.bbva.com/en/innovation/bbva-spearheading-the-creation-of-a-global-financial-crime-prevention-unit/">Financial Crime Prevention at BBVA</a>.]]>
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                    <title>Everything BBVA does to help people protect themselves from fraud</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/together-creating-opportunities/everything-bbva-does-to-help-people-protect-themselves-from-fraud/</link>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 00:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[Santiago Romero]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Cybersecurity]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Togetherness]]>
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                            <![CDATA[People entrust something as important as their money to banks. Financial institutions, and in particular BBVA, have cutting-edge tools and technologies to combat fraud and cyber threats, provide free training, and have redoubled their efforts to warn and inform customers about these risks. However, the main defense is that people should never share their passwords.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[People entrust something as important as their money to banks. Financial institutions, and in particular BBVA, have cutting-edge tools and technologies to combat fraud and cyber threats, provide free training, and have redoubled their efforts to warn and inform customers about these risks. However, the main defense is that people should never share their passwords.]]>
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                    <title>BBVA joins the international alliance to shield financial systems against quantum cybercrime</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/innovation/bbva-joins-the-international-alliance-to-shield-financial-systems-against-quantum-cybercrime/</link>
                    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2024 16:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[Vanessa Pombo Nartallo]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Quantum computing]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Cybersecurity]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Quantum computing]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Technology]]>
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                            <![CDATA[BBVA is a founding member of the <a href="https://www.europol.europa.eu/about-europol/european-cybercrime-centre-ec3/qsff" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Quantum Safe Financial Forum</a> (QSFF), a safe space for collaboration between European and US financial firms promoted by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3). The alliance aims to foster the creation of new technological systems within the financial industry that are safe, secure and resilient to malicious attacks that rely on quantum computing.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[BBVA is a founding member of the <a href="https://www.europol.europa.eu/about-europol/european-cybercrime-centre-ec3/qsff" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Quantum Safe Financial Forum</a> (QSFF), a safe space for collaboration between European and US financial firms promoted by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3). The alliance aims to foster the creation of new technological systems within the financial industry that are safe, secure and resilient to malicious attacks that rely on quantum computing.]]>
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                    <title>Garanti BBVA goes biometric with its new Bonus Platinum Card</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/tr/innovation/garanti-bbva-goes-biometric-with-its-new-bonus-platinum-card/</link>
                    <pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2024 08:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[Patricia Casas]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Cybersecurity]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Garanti BBVA]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Innovation]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Mobile payments]]>
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                            <![CDATA[BBVA’s Turkish unit is launching another pioneering solution, the Bonus Platinum Biometric Card, allowing users to make payments in a secure manner by simply scanning their fingerprint.  The innovative new card will be available shortly.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[BBVA’s Turkish unit is launching another pioneering solution, the Bonus Platinum Biometric Card, allowing users to make payments in a secure manner by simply scanning their fingerprint.  The innovative new card will be available shortly.]]>
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                    <title>Hackers vs. hackers at BBVA</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/innovation/hackers-vs-hackers-at-bbva/</link>
                    <pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2023 11:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
                    <dc:creator>
                        <![CDATA[Maribel Muñoz]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Cybersecurity]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Innovation]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Technology]]>
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                            <![CDATA[The main mission of BBVA's Security Operations team is to adopt all the necessary security measures in the face of an increasingly diverse cybercriminal reality. To this end, it has highly specialized teams in charge of assessing the security measures and processes implemented in the Group, as well as monitoring, detecting, and responding to any security risk or threat. Hundreds of hackers make up this team worldwide, organized into offensive, defensive, and transversal teams.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[The main mission of BBVA's Security Operations team is to adopt all the necessary security measures in the face of an increasingly diverse cybercriminal reality. To this end, it has highly specialized teams in charge of assessing the security measures and processes implemented in the Group, as well as monitoring, detecting, and responding to any security risk or threat. Hundreds of hackers make up this team worldwide, organized into offensive, defensive, and transversal teams.]]>
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