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.

Francisco González has presented Queen Letizia with the BBVA Microfinance Foundation’s “2015 Social Impact Report. Measuring what really matters”. Among other details, this report highlights that 32.5% of the people served by the entity escapes poverty two years after joining the entity, and after three years their sales increase by 57%.

The transparency report on the Fiscal Responsibility of Companies in the Ibex 35 compiled by Fundación Compromiso y Transparencia has awarded BBVA second place in the ranking of companies that best inform on their fiscal responsibility. This excellent result is thanks to the bank’s efforts to comply with the transparency indicators and improve their information in this area.

Chema Martínez, Carlos Soria, Garbiñe Muguruza and the Roca brothers are carrying out charity activities which demonstrate their individual and professional merits. Integrity, cooperation, humbleness, desire to achieve excellence, commitment, teamwork… These are their qualities as BBVA Ambassadors and the values which the company espouses.

Once again this year BBVA took part in "Earth Hour" organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), and turned off the lights in its buildings all over the world.

BBVA will again be switching off the lights in many of its buildings for the Earth Hour organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).

At BBVA we have moved a step further in integrating our corporate information, with the publication of the BBVA report in 2015. Thus, after 13 Corporate Responsibility reports, for the first time all of the Group’s non-financial information has been published alongside the financial data, in one document.

BBVA represents a benchmark in terms of transparency and clarity in the main markets where it operates. It further intends to position itself as a long-term industry leader in the field. Its roadmap is focused on creating a satisfactory customer experience, helping clients to make informed decisions with regard to their finances. The aim is to drive customer trust, their willingness to recommend BBVA and the bank’s reputation.

José Manuel González-Páramo, executive director of BBVA, has taken part in the Business and Public Assets conference organized by the Business and Humanism Institute of the University of Navarre at BBVA’s headquarters in Madrid. In his speech, González-Páramo has focused on ethics as a fundamental pillar of banking.

The world of business resorts to a series of ratios - Return on Assets (ROA), Return on Equity (ROE), Return on Investment (ROI) or Risk-Adjusted Return (RAR) – to gauge a company’s profitability and activity.

We at BBVA strive to help our company achieve the best results. But besides what and how much we achieve, we worry about how those results are achieved. That is why we also talk about principle-adjusted return, one of the levers on which we have built our distinctive banking model, which we call responsible banking.