BBVA on Wednesday placed £600 million (€698 million) in a senior non-preferred bond issuance. Demand reached as much as £1.25 billion. The bond has a six-year maturity, until September 2032, with an early redemption option in September 2031. The price was set at UKT (the UK sovereign bond) +100 basis points, below the initial price guidance of UKT+115 basis points. BBVA, NatWest and Nomura acted as bookrunners.

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.

Antalya will host COP31, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, from November 9 to 20, 2026. The city is seeking to consolidate a sustainable model for urban development and tourism while tackling challenges such as water stress, rising temperatures and sea-level rise.

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.

In artificial intelligence, getting a prediction right or detecting complex patterns does not always mean understanding the underlying events that occurred to lead to that result. Understanding causal relationships is the core idea addressed by the doctoral thesis of Jesús Renero Quintero, who is part of the AI adoption team at the bank. The thesis was developed within the industrial PhD program in Data Science promoted by the University of Navarra and BBVA. The goal is to design AI that is more reliable and transparent.

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.

BBVA has provided BizAway with €10 million in financing to support its acquisition of Dutch company Uniglobe Alliance Travel. The transaction will enable the scaleup to bolster its presence in Northern Europe, expand its customer base in the Benelux region, and move forward with its goal of becoming the leading corporate travel partner across the continent. The financing benefits from the support of the European Union and the European Investment Fund (EIF) under the InvestEU program.

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.

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.

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.

Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist and professor at New York University.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.