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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.

Garanti BBVA has issued a $30 million sustainable bond aligned with the BBVA Sustainable Debt Financing Framework under its international funding program. The proceeds of the bond will be channeled towards financing activities that advance gender equality and women’s economic empowerment, while also meeting the relevant criteria set out in the Orange Bond Principles developed by the Impact Investment Exchange (IIX).

The total solar eclipse due to take place on August 12, 2026 will be one of the most notable astronomical events visible from Spain. However, to enjoy it safely and responsibly, it's important to protect your eyes, plan your travel in advance, and minimize your environmental footprint and impact on local communities.

BBVA Pivot, BBVA’s global platform for businesses, features a revamped user experience. The update includes enhancements to account and payment management, new alerts and tracking tools, as well as the gradual rollout of Softoken—BBVA’s mobile authentication solution for authorizing transactions. These enhancements are further complemented by new analytics capabilities, enabling companies to manage their global treasury operations with greater agility, efficiency, and control.

BBVA has completed the final tranche of the extraordinary share buyback program announced in December 2025. Between 6 May and 3 August 2026, the Group repurchased shares worth €1.46 billion, bringing to a close the largest share buyback program in its history, with a total value of €3.96 billion.

BBVA channeled €82 billion into sustainable business in the first half of 2026. Spain accounted for approximately €26 billion of this amount. This activity allows clients to access financing and solutions for the energy transition, efficient resource use and social challenges. With this progress, the bank channeled a cumulative €216 billion toward its €700 billion target the 2025-2029 period.

The energy transition is often associated with technologies such as batteries, electric vehicles and renewable energy. However, behind all of them lies a less visible factor that is beginning to shape industrial competitiveness: access to critical minerals.

The bank is strengthening its institutional clients value proposition with a comprehensive derivatives execution and clearing platform.

Two generative AI assistants developed by the teams managing BBVA’s contact centres in Italy and Germany—the Group’s two fully digital banks—have reduced the average handling time for the most common customer enquiries about products, services and general procedures by more than 15%. By speeding up information retrieval and response preparation, these AI copilots enable customer service agents to resolve routine enquiries more quickly and dedicate more time to more complex cases that require deeper analysis and personalised support.

Türkiye Garanti Bankası A.Ş. has released its financial statements for the six months ended 30 June 2026. Based on the consolidated financial statements, the Bank recorded net income of TL 64.4 billion in the first six months of the year. Total assets stood at TL 5.2 trillion, while the Bank’s contribution to the economy through cash and non-cash loans reached TL 3.9 trillion.

BBVA’s wholesale banking area delivered strong performance during the first half of 2026, with revenues growing 24% year-on-year (at constant euros, excluding the accounting impact of the hyperinflation adjustment). All business units contributed to this performance, posting double-digit growth: Global Markets (GM), +26%; Global Transaction Banking (GTB), +21%; and Investment Banking & Finance (IB&F), +41%. Loan book increased by 20% compared with December 2025, highlighting Project Finance and Corporate Lending in Asia and the United States alongside Transactional Banking. Meanwhile, attributable profit reached €979 million in the second quarter and exceeded €2 billion for the first half of the year, increasing 21% year-on-year at constant euros and 18% year-on-year in current euros.

BBVA recorded a net attributable profit of €6.05 billion in the first six months of 2026, which represents an 11.1 percent increase year-over-year (up 10.0 percent at constant exchange rates). These results reflect the strong performance of recurring revenue, supported by loan growth (up 17.7 percent at constant exchange rates)¹. From January to June, the Group reached new heights in profitability and value creation for shareholders, with ROTE at 22.2 percent and tangible book value per share plus dividends increasing 21.8 percent year-over-year².  Today, BBVA announced the launch of a new €2 billion extraordinary share buyback program. The first €1 billion tranche will begin on August 5.³

BBVA has approved a renewal of its leadership team to drive transformation in an environment shaped by the profound impact that artificial intelligence will have on the business, on the way we work and, especially, on the experience the bank provides to customers. All the newly appointed executives come from within the Group, forming a renewed leadership team that combines extensive experience in transformation, innovation and customer focus. The changes also simplify the organization to foster greater integration across related functions.

Garanti BBVA has moved its KGF- and İGE-guaranteed loan processes to digital channels, allowing SMEs and other businesses to apply without visiting a branch, track their applications end-to-end, and monitor each stage of the evaluation in real time.

The partnership between the climate summit (COP31) and the International Energy Agency is a framework agreement that combines data, scientific expertise and political leadership to transform environmental commitments into specific, measurable and bankable actions with a 2035 horizon.

Garanti BBVA has taken another step in bringing the digital banking experience to generative AI platforms. Following BBVA’s launch of the ChatGPT app experience in Italy and Germany, the service is now available in Türkiye through Garanti BBVA. As one of the first financial institutions featured in the ChatGPT app library, Garanti BBVA enables users to access up-to-date information about its banking products and services directly within the ChatGPT chat experience.

BBVA and FC Internazionale Milano have announced a new partnership built on a shared vision: using innovation and technology to create experiences that strengthen the connection between people and the brands they trust. As part of the agreement, BBVA will become the Official Sleeve Partner of Inter’s Men's First Team, Inter Women, Inter U23, Inter U20 and Inter Legends. In addition, BBVA will serve as the Front Jersey Partner of the club’s youth academy teams, from U18 downwards, across both the men’s and women’s divisions, reflecting the two organizations’ shared commitment to younger generations and families.

Not long ago, companies seeking to finance an acquisition or refinance debt had a relatively predictable path to follow. Banks arranged syndicated loans, institutional investors provided much of the capital, and the leveraged loan market served as the primary source of financing for many corporate transactions.

The partnership was formalized during a meeting in Ankara between COP31 President and Türkiye's Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, Murat Kurum, and Garanti BBVA CEO Mahmut Akten.

BBVA has announced that it will take part as the Global Banking Partner of the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31), to be held from November 9 to 20 in the city of Antalya, Türkiye. Through this partnership, the bank will work alongside the climate summit’s Presidency and the United Nations to continue driving financing for the energy transition and accelerate the roll-out of solutions for a low-carbon economy.

In this new episode of BBVA Greenfluencers, we explore how sustainability is shaping the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s approach to sustainable infrastructure finance.