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BBVA Research believes that COP31, to be held in Antalya, Türkiye, this coming November, must turn climate commitments into concrete, verifiable action. The bank’s research unit notes that, while climate governance already has a framework of commitments and initiatives in place, a gap remains between the stated goals and their implementation. In a recent climate report, it also cites financing as one of the factors that will determine progress toward the measures agreed upon.

Artificial intelligence is fueling an unprecedented surge in demand for digital infrastructure. But increasingly, the defining challenge facing the sector is not computing power alone. It is energy.

Global Finance’s awards assess the innovation structures shaping the future of financial services. Garanti BBVA Partners has been recognized in Global Finance’s World’s Best Financial Innovation Labs 2026 in the Financial Services Company (Working With External Startups and Scale-ups) category, placing it alongside the innovation labs of the world’s leading financial institutions.

Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist and professor at New York University.

Twenty-one leading international financial institutions have committed to establish a new company in H2 2026, subject to closing conditions, to support the issuance of a stablecoin solution.

BBVA Corporate & Investment Banking is bringing artificial intelligence directly into ePricer, its digital structured products platform, with a new release designed to make idea generation, pricing and lifecycle management more connected.

Garanti BBVA has won two awards at Global Finance’s AI in Finance Awards 2026: “Best Personalized Financial Advice in Türkiye” and “Best Personalized Financial Advice in Western Europe.” The awards recognize the bank’s AI-powered approach to providing personalized financial advice. They also qualify Garanti BBVA for the global Round II judging, with the winners to be announced in Singapore in October.

BBVA closed a $2.3 billion senior non-preferred (SNP) debt issuance on Tuesday, structured in three tranches: two three-year tranches — one $1 billion fixed-rate tranche and a $300 million floating-rate tranche — and a third $1 billion fixed-rate tranche with a five-year maturity.

As infrastructure investment grows across the U.S., project finance is helping developers turn increasingly complex projects into bankable assets.

BBVA has announced a €2 million donation to meet the most urgent humanitarian needs and help with the recovery and reconstruction of the areas affected by the earthquake in Colombia. The funds will be channeled through UNHCR, UNICEF, and ‘Empresas Unidas por Colombia’, an initiative led by the National Business Association of Colombia (ANDI). BBVA has also launched a fundraising campaign among customers and employees, along with other support measures in Colombia and Spain.

The bank has reached €560 million ($630 million) in committed investments in funds specializing in decarbonization. The bank now invests in eleven climate funds managed by some of the world’s leading international investment platforms, thus helping to finance projects and companies that champion the transition to a low-carbon economy.

Artificial intelligence is triggering one of the largest infrastructure investment cycles in modern economic history. Increasingly, the race is not only about technology. It is about power, capital and global connectivity.

Jürgen von der Lehr, the new Head of Digital Banks at BBVA in Germany, takes stock of the bank’s first year in the country and highlights that BBVA has succeeded not only in attracting customers, but also in retaining them, with 60% of customers active on a monthly basis. The new executive, appointed last May, explains that the ambition is to build a universal digital bank, progressively expanding its range of products and services to become its customers’ primary bank. “Our goal is not growth for growth's sake. We want to progressively become the bank of choice for customers looking for banking that is simple, transparent and ready for the future,” Von der Lehr says in this interview.