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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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.

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.

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.

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.

Last July witnessed the convergence of two events that, at first glance, appear to have nothing in common: the release of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and the European Union’s decision to postpone the implementation of much of the AI Act until December 2027. With the delay announced in July, Europe’s push for trustworthy AI, launched back in 2017, will have spanned an entire decade—exactly as long as it took Odysseus to return to Ithaca following the Trojan War.

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).

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Garanti BBVA has developed a new treasury solution to help companies trading with the European Union manage the carbon cost risk arising from potential price fluctuations in Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM¹) certificates through derivative products. As part of this initiative, Garanti BBVA introduced an early solution in Türkiye by structuring and executing a transaction to help Medcem Cement Group manage and hedge its CBAM-driven price risk. Through this innovative solution, Medcem Cement Group has gained greater predictability over its future CBAM certificate costs by managing a portion of the price risk associated with the CBAM certificates underlying the transaction today

The 31st Climate Summit (COP31), to be held in the Turkish city of Antalya in November, will bring together several key figures tasked with driving forward global climate negotiations. Murat Kurum, Fatma Varank and Samed Ağırbaş, among other names, will coordinate a conference that aims to turn political commitments into tangible outcomes in electrification, urban resilience and the circular economy.

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