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.

The partnership between the climate summit (COP31) and the International Energy Agency is a framework agreement that combines data, scientific expertise and political leadership to transform environmental commitments into specific, measurable and bankable actions with a 2035 horizon.

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.

Not long ago, companies seeking to finance an acquisition or refinance debt had a relatively predictable path to follow. Banks arranged syndicated loans, institutional investors provided much of the capital, and the leveraged loan market served as the primary source of financing for many corporate transactions.

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.

In this new episode of BBVA Greenfluencers, we explore how sustainability is shaping the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s approach to sustainable infrastructure finance.

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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Garanti BBVA has issued a $30 million sustainable bond under its international funding program to finance projects focused on climate change adaptation and resilience.

BBVA is continuing to scale its Machine Learning capabilities with a new technology architecture integrated into ADA, the bank’s global data and AI platform based on AWS technologies.

Garanti BBVA has received six awards at the 2026 Euromoney Awards for Excellence, recognizing the bank’s leadership in retail banking, consumer lending, diversity and inclusion, and corporate social responsibility. The bank was named Best Retail Bank, Best Bank for Consumer Lending, Best Bank for Diversity and Inclusion, and Best Bank for Corporate Social Responsibility in Türkiye, in addition to awards for Best Bank for Consumer Lending and Best Bank for Diversity and Inclusion in Central and Eastern Europe.

Corporate finance leaders are constantly evaluating how to fund growth, improve liquidity, and diversify sources of capital. For companies with portfolios of loans, receivables, leases, or other predictable cash-flowing assets, asset-backed securities (ABS) offer an additional financing option. By transforming those assets into securities sold to institutional investors, securitization has become an established component of the U.S. capital markets.

Euromoney has selected BBVA as the best bank in the world for customer experience in 2026. This recognition underscores the core of the bank’s strategy: seeing the world through the customer’s eyes. Through this approach, the bank aims for excellence in execution, surprising customers with a unique value proposition and offering personalized solutions. The bank also won the award for the best bank in the world for diversity and inclusion, as well as the best bank in three countries: Türkiye, Argentina and Peru.

In an opinion piece published by elEconomista, Pep Ferrís, Head of CIB Asia, examines how geopolitics, artificial intelligence and the energy transition are reshaping the global economy and placing Asia at the heart of the new global balance.

The international magazine Global Finance has recognized BBVA as World’s Best Bank in Emerging Markets in the 2026 edition of its World’s Best Bank awards, which honor banks based on criteria such as performance, reputation and management excellence. This recognition joins the other awards the BBVA Group recently received from the same publication, including the World’s Most Innovative Bank, recognition of Garanti BBVA as the Best Bank in Türkiye and the Best Investment Bank awards in Spain, Mexico, Peru and Türkiye.

The insurance industry is going through a defining moment. The emergence of new risks, from climate change to cybersecurity, together with the rise of emerging technologies and an increasingly demanding regulatory framework, is transforming the way enterprises protect, invest and manage their capital. Cristina Querejeta, Global Sector Head of Insurance at BBVA CIB, outlines the key drivers behind this evolution.

Satisfaction surveys are no longer the only way BBVA gains insight into its relationship with customers. The bank is now using generative artificial intelligence to analyze hundreds of thousands of customer interactions, providing a more complete picture of the customer experience. It harnesses this technology to process selected conversations in Spain across channels such as phone calls and chats between customers and relationship managers through the bank’s app, as well as more than 220,000 monthly calls between customers and remote relationship managers in Mexico. The goal is to identify customer needs and pain points more quickly and reliably, enabling more personalized and effective service. These capabilities are deployed in compliance with applicable data protection regulations. This solution is one of the 1,127 AI use cases that BBVA already has in production, serving both customers and the business.

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Digital financing is gaining ground among small businesses and the self-employed. At the end of May 2026, 58% of new lending transactions arranged with SMEs across the BBVA Group were completed through digital channels, rising to 67% in the case of the self-employed. Between January and May, the volume of financing arranged digitally came to almost €10 billion. The bank now has more than 2.8 million digital SME and self-employed customers in the countries where it operates.

Garanti BBVA has joined Swift’s new payment scheme as a sending bank—a first for Türkiye—offering customers faster, more transparent international money transfers with upfront fee visibility and end-to-end tracking. The service is initially available for transfers to the UK, Spain, Australia, the US, and Germany.

At BBVA, the development and use of artificial intelligence are underpinned by a responsible AI framework based on eight principles that promote transparency, security, privacy and human oversight. The aim is to create sustainable value, uphold security standards, regulatory compliance and customer data protection, in order to preserve customer trust in the bank’s services in an increasingly automated environment.  These principles are implemented through technological capabilities, governance mechanisms, and training and support programs for employees.

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The United Nations Global Compact has selected BBVA’s experience implementing a sustainability assessment model as a case study for UN Academy, its global platform for corporate learning. In 2025, BBVA evaluated 5,200 suppliers using this model, compared to 4,600 in 2024.

During the recent London Climate Action Week, several BBVA leaders cautioned how physical climate risk is no longer solely a sustainability issue but has become a key consideration in business and investment decisions. According to Antoni Ballabriga, Global Head of Sustainability Intelligence at BBVA, “the ability to adapt to climate change has become a competitive advantage for companies.”

BBVA has completed a transaction initiated by an artificial intelligence agent on behalf of a cardholder, as part of a live agentic commerce activity that Visa is developing in Europe under its Visa Agentic Ready programme. The payment was carried out using real card credentials and the systems of an active merchant, demonstrating that AI agents can securely complete purchases on behalf of cardholders within today’s payments infrastructure.

Garanti BBVA has issued a €30 million green bond with a maturity of one year and two days under its international funding program to support climate change adaptation and make sustainable agriculture more resilient.

Garanti BBVA has once again been named Türkiye’s Best Cash Management Bank at the Global Finance World’s Best Treasury & Cash Management Awards 2026, retaining the title it won last year. The bank was recognized for its broad cash management ecosystem, digital banking infrastructure, and innovative product offering.

Garanti BBVA and Turkish Airlines are celebrating their 25-year alliance with the launch of the Miles&Smiles Garanti BBVA Diamond Limited Edition credit card. Only 3,879 cards will be issued, a figure obtained by adding together both companies’ founding years.