Garanti BBVA has entered a new era in asset management in Türkiye by migrating its crypto asset portfolios to its app, Garanti BBVA Mobile. Garanti BBVA Crypto users can now easily view their crypto assets, along with price information in real time, gains and losses, and watchlists directly from the ‘Investments’ menu in the bank’s mobile app.

BBVA firmly believes in the role of hydrogen in the energy transition and the business opportunity it represents. To this end, it considers advice and financing essential for rolling out projects based on this clean technology. “We see a real appetite from the financial sector to invest in hydrogen assets,” said Dorian de Kermadec, Managing Director Low Carbon Advisory at BBVA, in an interview with bbva.com.

Decarbonization and the energy transition have become global priorities. In this transformative landscape, BBVA plays a key role in helping enterprises evolve toward more sustainable business models.

Garanti BBVA Technology has won the ‘Best Financial Institution Innovation’ award at the Datos Impact Awards for its Mule Account Fraud Score Model, a solution designed to prevent fraud in banking transactions.

Garanti BBVA, in partnership with Eureko Sigorta, has just launched Cell Phone Screen Protection Insurance. Available through Garanti BBVA Mobile, the new insurance solution offers customers an easy way to protect one of their most essential everyday devices.

MiCA, the EU Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, has been fully in force for just over six months. This milestone also marks the first complete year for its stablecoin rules. The law’s passage was hard‑won, and its rollout has been steady but measured.

“Simplification” dominates today’s European financial‑regulation debate. The new Commission has turned it into a slogan, pledging to strip away layers of complexity, align the regime with the cleaner approaches of other regions, and make the framework easier to navigate.  At present Europe resembles a car covered by multiple insurers, each tacking on new clauses over time. The result is a patchwork in which it is unclear what is actually covered or how policyholders are meant to use their coverage. It simply doesn’t work.

BBVA has taken a significant step forward in its data-driven transformation strategy with the successful implementation of ADA, its global data platform, in Mexico and Colombia. This strategic advance seeks to improve and accelerate the bank's ability to offer personalized and relevant products and services to its customers. The cloud-based data platform, built on Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies, enables the centralized consolidation of analytical processes, ensures real-time access to data, and scales the use of artificial intelligence.

During the global launch of its new language model, OpenAI identified BBVA as one of the first institutions to adopt this technology in the financial sector. The bank has been testing the system in strategic tasks as part of its commitment to exploring the potential of generative artificial intelligence to enhance organizational processes and drive team innovation.

BBVA has reached a milestone in its commitment to artificial intelligence, surpassing 1,000 data scientists on staff. To further enhance this talent, the bank offers them a professional development model that allows these professionals to advance in their careers without giving up their specialization. In this innovative approach, technical expertise is placed on equal footing with team management as a path for professional growth, allowing them to remain involved in AI development as they advance in their careers.

Proptech company PropHero has secured financing from BBVA Spark to drive its growth in the Spanish real estate market, where it plans to double its business volume by year-end 2025.

BBVA has once again excelled in the stress test results published by the European Banking Authority (EBA) for the 2025-2027 period. This exercise takes place every two years and assesses banks’ ability to maintain minimum levels of capital and own funds in two scenarios: a baseline and an adverse scenario. In the baseline scenario, BBVA would generate 355 basis points of capital from December 2024 to December 2027, reaching a fully loaded CET1 ratio of 16.43 percent. In the adverse scenario, BBVA would lose 186 basis points of capital to reach a fully loaded CET1 ratio of 11.02 percent in December 2027. The impact of the adverse scenario on BBVA’s capital would be well below the average for the group of comparable European banks, demonstrating the Group’s strength and resilience.

BBVA's sustainable business continues to accelerate its growth. The bank has channeled approximately €63 billion into sustainable business during the first half of 2025, representing a 48% increase compared to the same period last year. At the same time, more than €30 billion was channeled in the second quarter, a new quarterly record.

BBVA Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) posted record revenues of €3.194 billion in the first half of 2025, representing a 28% increase compared to the same period of 2024 (in constant euros, excluding the impact of hyperinflation accounting adjustments). All business units delivered double-digit growth: Global Markets (GM) rose 31% year-on-year; Global Transaction Banking (GTB) 17%; and Investment Banking & Finance (IB&F) 32%. BBVA CIB’s loan book expanded by 10% versus December 2024, driven by both transactional banking and IB&F, supported by landmark operations in project finance and corporate lending across Spain, Mexico, and the U.S. Attributable profit reached €1.553 billion, up 34% year-on-year. Profitability improved across key geographies, particularly in Spain, Continental Europe, and the U.S.

BBVA posted a record €5.45 billion profit, up 9 percent yoy (+31 percent in constant euros) in the first half of 2025, driven by greater activity in Spain and Mexico. The bank reported excellent metrics in profitability -with ROTE above 20 percent-, and value creation for shareholders, with growth of the tangible book value per share plus dividends of nearly 15 percent. BBVA also improved its profitability and efficiency prospects at Group level, as well as lending and net interest income for Spain, among others. The bank also unveiled its financial goals for the 2025-2028 period. It expects to earn an accumulated net attributable profit of around €48 billion over four years, while having €36 billion of highest-quality capital available for distribution to shareholders through 2028¹.  Furthermore, BBVA expects average ROTE to reach around 22 percent during this period, with the efficiency ratio improving to levels around 35 percent.  The bank also set a goal to increase the tangible book value per share plus dividends by around 15 percent (CAGR).

¹ Subject to the approval of the corresponding governing bodies and the required regulatory authorizations.

Climate technologies are innovative solutions that aim to combat climate change by slashing emissions and capturing carbon from the atmosphere. According to experts, this industry could generate €600 billion in annual revenue by 2030.

BBVA's Head of Talent and Culture in Spain, Yolanda Martínez Bajo, and the CEO of Fundación ONCE, José Luis Martínez Donoso, have signed the ‘Inserta Empleo’ agreement to promote employment for people with disabilities.

BBVA has hired 23 recent graduates specializing in data for its technology teams. They were selected through the bank’s ‘Be Talent’ program, one of the main entryways for data specialists entering the Spanish job market. This innovative selection process evaluates not only the candidates’ technical skills and personal abilities, but also asks them to develop an analytical model for a real financial challenge in a ‘datathon’ that marks the final stage in the selection process.

When a company defines its strategic roadmap, it must also establish the financial approach that will underpin its execution. In this context, bank loans and corporate bonds emerge as two often complementary avenues for supporting growth. Financial decision-making thus becomes a central pillar of strategy execution. Choosing between them, or combining both judiciously,is not merely a tactical move, but a strategic decision with profound implications for the company’s present and future development.

BBVA’s Turkish franchise has secured three accolades at the Euromoney Awards for Excellence 2025, consolidating its position as a leader in sustainable banking and workplace inclusion across Central and Eastern Europe. The bank was named Best Bank for Diversity and Inclusion and Best Sustainable Finance Bank in the CEE region, and also took home the Best Sustainable Finance Bank award for Türkiye.

BBVA’s Turkish franchise provides financing for Uludağ Elektrik Dağıtım A.Ş.’s electricity distribution investments across Bursa, Balıkesir, Çanakkale, and Yalova, contributing to regional energy resilience and sustainable development.

The BBVA Group scooped 13 awards at the Euromoney Awards for Excellence ceremony held last night in London, attended by over 350 representatives from the international financial community. BBVA’s franchises in Mexico, Peru, Spain and Türkiye all received awards under various categories.

BBVA has been recognized as the World’s Best Corporate Bank for 2025 by Global Finance for the third year running, cementing its status as a global leader in the financial industry. This award is a testament to BBVA’s continued excellence and innovation in corporate banking, one of its strategic priorities.

Generative AI with autonomous financial agents, quantum computing capable of spotting fraud in seconds, and banking services embedded in health or e-commerce apps. According to 'Fintech 2040', a report drawn up by BNPL provider Riverty, this could well be how fintech evolves over the next two decades. The study suggests a world where the boundaries between payments, lending, insurance and investment fade, and financial services become an integral part of people’s everyday digital lives.

BBVA has acted as Agent Bank and Co-Coordinator in a new €2.5 billion syndicated credit facility signed this morning by Iberdrola with a total of 32 international financial institutions. The bank also served as Sustainability Coordinator. The transaction was oversubscribed by 45%, underscoring the strong support from the banking sector for the energy group's strategy.

BBVA continues to drive growth in Europe with the appointment of Walter Rizzi as Head of Digital Banking in Italy, a key role in adapting the bank’s offering to the needs of the local market.