The race to build computing capacity for artificial intelligence is reshaping data center financing in the United States. As projects become larger, more capital-intensive and increasingly developed in phases, sponsors need financing that can adapt to changing capital requirements while still providing certainty of execution on increasingly compressed timelines.

Power system flexibility is the system's ability to adjust electricity generation, consumption, storage and exchanges in response to changes in supply and demand. Its purpose is to keep the grid balanced and safely integrate higher levels of renewable generation.

BBVA is the bank with the most mature artificial intelligence strategy in Spain and the eurozone, according to the international Evident AI Index. The report recognises the bank’s progress in embedding AI across its business to create more personalised and intelligent banking for its customers, while also placing it at the global forefront of developing AI-skilled talent.

BBVA has presented the evolution of its artificial intelligence (AI) strategy at an event with analysts and investors, introducing ‘The Frame’, a new common framework for creating, deploying, managing and governing AI agents at scale. After focusing its efforts over the past year on developing specific use cases, the bank is now advancing this standard to extend the technology across the organisation and move forward with its transformation. Carlos Torres Vila, Chair of BBVA, explained that this capability will be critical to delivering more proactive and personalised banking, always for the benefit of customers.

BBVA has completed the first tranche of the extraordinary €2 billion share buyback programme it announced at the end of July. Between 5 August and 1 October 2026, the bank repurchased shares worth €1 billion.

Garanti BBVA has launched Foreign Trade Packages that allow businesses engaged in international trade to carry out import, export and related banking transactions on more advantageous terms than when paying fees for each individual transaction. With options tailored to different transaction needs and volumes, the packages can be purchased at Garanti BBVA branches or through Mobile and Online Banking, while remaining allowances can be tracked in real time through digital channels.

BBVA will expand its capabilities in Asia after BBVA Japan Securities Limited completed the relevant local regulatory registrations. This new subsidiary serves a strategic purpose: to act as a direct channel connecting Japanese institutional investors with BBVA's global financial solutions, operating strictly as a local sales and middle office platform for the distribution of BBVA's international products.

BBVA is gearing up its service model for middle-market companies, combining artificial intelligence and digital tools with specialized advice. This gives relationship managers more time to understand each company’s plans and support its decision-making. For companies, the result is a better client experience, with more agile and personalized service and advice tailored more closely to the needs of each business. Middle-market companies currently account for around 60% of the client base of the bank’s Commercial & Institutional Client Solutions area.

More than 1,000 events took place across New York during Climate Week NYC 2026, alongside the United Nations General Assembly. Once again, the city became a unique meeting point for governments, companies, financial institutions, investors and civil society to discuss the future of sustainability.

BBVA Digital Banks and eDreams ODIGEO are launching a strategic partnership to promote integrated digital experiences across travel and financial services. The collaboration, which begins in Italy and Germany, aims to bring together the capabilities and expertise of both companies to develop new digital propositions. As a first step, an exclusive campaign will launch in Germany in September for new customers of  BBVA Germany who are eligible to participate and enjoy one year of Opodo Prime Plus free of charge, an online travel subscription programme offering exclusive benefits and discounts on flights, hotels, trains and car rentals.

During New York Climate Week, held from September 20-27, BBVA and Garanti BBVA actively participated in various platforms addressing the global climate and sustainability agenda. Garanti BBVA CEO Mahmut Akten, Garanti BBVA Executive Vice President Sinem Edige, BBVA Global Head of Sustainability and Corporate Investment Banking Javier Rodriguez Soler, BBVA Global Head of Sustainability Intelligence & Advocacy Antoni Ballabriga, and bank executives shared their expertise and insights across events, conferences, and high-level roundtable discussions. They evaluated global developments, the sustainable transformation journey of Turkey and its financial ecosystem, and key priorities leading up to COP31 alongside international stakeholders.

In an op-ed published by El Español, José Manuel Gómez-Borrero, responsible for Equity Capital Markets at BBVA CIB, analyzes the current two-speed dynamics of the primary equity market, contrasting the agility of accelerated placements with the caution surrounding new IPOs, and explains why early preparation is key to reducing investor uncertainty.

BBVA CEO Onur Genç said in London on Tuesday that artificial intelligence (AI) will drive the next major transformation of the sector and that the bank is very well positioned to address this new cycle. The Group was a pioneer in the digitalization era and is taking the same approach to AI: early adoption, rapid scaling and a transformation around this new technology. “We do believe we are embracing this technology better than our competitors,” he said during his participation in the CEO conference organized by Bank of America.

BBVA has placed a €1.25 billion senior preferred green bond this Tuesday, maturing in September 2033. The price was set at mid-swaps +75 basis points, significantly below the initial price guidance of mid-swaps +100 basis points. The bookrunners were BBVA, Danske, ING, Natixis and UBS. Demand reached €2.8 billion.

Europe’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) Regulation has done more than bring order to the crypto market. It has also laid the groundwork for modernizing financial infrastructure through tokenization.

BBVA has published its Green Bonds Report 2025, which details how proceeds from its green bond issuances were allocated and the environmental impact of the resulting project portfolio. At year-end 2025, BBVA had 20 green bonds outstanding, with an equivalent value of €5.666 billion. The financed projects had an estimated impact of 2.9 million tons of CO₂ emissions avoided during the year, 51% more than in 2024, and are estimated to have generated nearly 11.5 million MWh of renewable energy. That is roughly equivalent to the annual energy consumption of 3.2 million European households.

FC Internazionale Milano and BBVA have officially presented their partnership at a media event held at the club’s headquarters in Milan. The event also coincides with the launch of new BBVA offers in Italy, where the bank is now approaching one million customers.

Both international events seek to raise awareness of climate change and spur action to mitigate it, but they differ in how they operate, the commitments they generate and their scope. Climate Week NYC is a gauge of how businesses, institutions and civil society are thinking and acting, while the Conference of the Parties (COP) brings together heads of state to negotiate binding agreements.

BBVA measures and shares climate physical risk assessments with its clients. In doing so, it relies on proprietary methodologies through BBVA Adapta, an in-house tool that enables it to assess the physical climate risk of its portfolio at a granular level and over different time horizons. The analysis generates metrics and spatial visualizations for the bank’s Risk and Business areas.

Garanti BBVA has released a series of nine videos on its YouTube channel, called the ‘Financial Security Guide.’ The series is designed to raise awareness among viewers of potential fraud on digital channels, helping them recognize suspicious requests and take the appropriate steps to protect themselves. Featuring digital content creator Ozan Sihay, the series uses a variety of everyday scenarios to explain common fraud methods, identify warning signs and outline practical precautions in an easy-to-understand way.

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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.

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.

In an article published in Cinco Días, Juan Blasco, Head of Institutional Business at BBVA CIB and Board Chair of the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME), examines the role of the Savings and Investments Union (SIU) as a key lever to channel European savings into productive investment, deepen capital markets, and strengthen Europe’s competitiveness and growth potential.

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.