For BBVA, the Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias offers a wonderful opportunity to interact with customers, journalists, intellectuals and national opinion leaders.

Although it took Ruta BBVA more than 27 years to visit Colombia for the first time, the expedition has travelled across Colombia twice in less than four years: First from Cali to Cartagena and then from Cartagena to Bogota. Two editions of an initiation journey that for many years has captured the hearts and minds of the Colombian people. So much so that more than 100 young Colombians have taken part in its 31 editions.

Negotiations between Juan Manuel Santos’ government and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) began in 2012. Talks with the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) will start in May. It has been a long, complicated peace process. While a definitive peace agreement is still pending, the steps taken so far can be considered milestones in Colombia’s history.

La próxima parada para Garbiñe Muguruza es Stuttgart. El 'Porsche Tennis Grand Prix' es el primer gran torneo de tierra batida para la número cuatro en el inicio de su gira europea. Una cita con cierto aroma a Roland Garros ya que los organizadores del torneo alemán usan el mismo tipo de grano fino que en el Grand Slam galo.

The millennials are one of the biggest generations in history in demographic terms and their consumer habits are very different from those of their ancestors.

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals Fund (SDG-F) has chosen the BBVA Microfinance Foundation, along with three more Spanish institutions, as a case study in the guide it is preparing on the role of enterprise in achieving these goals.