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.

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.

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.

The total solar eclipse due to take place on August 12, 2026 will be one of the most notable astronomical events visible from Spain. However, to enjoy it safely and responsibly, it's important to protect your eyes, plan your travel in advance, and minimize your environmental footprint and impact on local communities.

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 channeled €82 billion into sustainable business in the first half of 2026. Spain accounted for approximately €26 billion of this amount. This activity allows clients to access financing and solutions for the energy transition, efficient resource use and social challenges. With this progress, the bank channeled a cumulative €216 billion toward its €700 billion target the 2025-2029 period.

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.

Two generative AI assistants developed by the teams managing BBVA’s contact centres in Italy and Germany—the Group’s two fully digital banks—have reduced the average handling time for the most common customer enquiries about products, services and general procedures by more than 15%. By speeding up information retrieval and response preparation, these AI copilots enable customer service agents to resolve routine enquiries more quickly and dedicate more time to more complex cases that require deeper analysis and personalised support.

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 recorded a net attributable profit of €6.05 billion in the first six months of 2026, which represents an 11.1 percent increase year-over-year (up 10.0 percent at constant exchange rates). These results reflect the strong performance of recurring revenue, supported by loan growth (up 17.7 percent at constant exchange rates)¹. From January to June, the Group reached new heights in profitability and value creation for shareholders, with ROTE at 22.2 percent and tangible book value per share plus dividends increasing 21.8 percent year-over-year².  Today, BBVA announced the launch of a new €2 billion extraordinary share buyback program. The first €1 billion tranche will begin on August 5.³

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

In a previous article, we explored how BBVA is scaling its Machine Learning capabilities with a new architecture based on AWS technologies. This second article details how we have tested with four initial use cases to identify reusable ML patterns, standardize operational workflows, and design extensible templates that accelerate ML delivery while maintaining governance and flexibility across teams and business domains.

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.

If every crisis also creates an opportunity, then since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—and even more so since the conflict involving the United States, Israel, and Iran—Europe has entered a period full of possibilities, with strong incentives to continue reducing its dependence on imported energy and strengthening its competitiveness. But opportunities do not automatically mean results. They take time to materialize, require perseverance, and often come at a significant cost.

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.

The bank has participated from the go-live of Swift’s new retail scheme, a global initiative that establishes a common rulebook to deliver faster, more transparent, predictable and 24/7 international payments for individuals and SMEs.

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.

Five startups—Eriklabs, Text2Test, Rudiq, Freya, and Fraud.com—have been selected for the 10th cohort of the Garanti BBVA Partners Tech Program. Working in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and blockchain, they will benefit from six months of mentorship, collaboration, and growth opportunities.