Garanti BBVA Crypto has eliminated commissions and fees on crypto trading in TRY pairs. The move is part of its aim to offer investors a user-friendly crypto experience.

In its announcement on Monday of the annual review of the composition of its indices, Stoxx has added BBVA to Stoxx Europe 50, the stock market index that measures the performance of the 50 super-sector leaders in Europe. The index serves financial institutions as the underlying for a wide range of investment products: exchange-traded funds (ETFs), futures and options, and structured products worldwide.

Garanti BBVA Crypto is now offering trading and transfers in Tether (USDT), allowing users to do business with the popular dollar-pegged stablecoin via the Ethereum network and trade USDT pairs.

Garanti BBVA’s flagship environmental program, the Blue Breath Project, has helped identify Türkiye’s oldest seagrass meadow off the coast of Kızılada near Göcek. Led by Professor Ergün Taşkın, a team of scientists confirmed the meadow’s age at about 2,000 years, the first time such an ecosystem has been dated in the country. Researchers believe the discovery could reshape marine conservation.

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.

As part of the strategic plan unveiled earlier this year and following the release of second-quarter earnings, BBVA announced its financial goals for 2025-2028 for the Group and key business areas. All units are poised for sustainable growth while generating capital and maintaining rigorous cost and risk control, which will translate into improved profitability across business units.

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.

Grupo Energía Bogotá (GEB) has just secured a long-term credit facility from BBVA Colombia worth 500 billion pesos, as it aims to ramp up its investment plan and modernize the country’s existing energy infrastructure.

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.

This past Wednesday, BBVA issued a 10-year senior non-preferred (SNP) green bond worth €1 billion and maturing in 2035. Demand for the bond peaked at €2.9 billion, reflecting strong investor appetite for green-labelled instruments. At the close of the issue, the price was set at mid-swap plus 108 basis points, significantly below the initial guidance of mid-swap plus 135 basis points, making it the lowest spread achieved on a 10-year SNP by a Southern European financial institution since 2021.

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.

The three-year project, titled Fair Learning, will address the main ethical, technical and regulatory challenges posed by the growing automation of decisions that impact society. A multidisciplinary team of BBVA and The University of Navarra will explore the use of advanced mathematical and statistical methods to correct data bias, integrate philosophical and ethical frameworks into model development, and devise a set of best practices based on international legislation.

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.

The bank published its latest ‘Green and Social Bond Report’ on fund allocation and the impact of its sustainable issuances through December 2024. BBVA allocated a total of €5.83 billion to environmental, social and governance (ESG) bonds through green initiatives, and €1 billion to projects with a social focus. This year, the amount of resources allocated to activities aligned with environmental criteria rose by 20 percent over the previous year.

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.

Many European banks already have practices in place to detect, monitor, and manage climate risks, the second biggest concern for businesses. Frank Elderson, member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, acknowledges the progress made but also admits that there is still a lot to do.

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’s Turkish unit reported net income of TL 53.6 billion for the first half of 2025, according to consolidated financial statements as of June 30. Total assets grew to TL 3.82 trillion, while the bank provided TL 2.95 trillion to the economy through cash and non-cash loans. Customer deposits remained the primary source of funding, accounting for 69.5 percent of total assets. The deposit base expanded 26.7 percent in the first six months to TL 2.66 trillion. The bank maintained a robust capital adequacy ratio of 15.6 percent.* Return on average equity (ROAE) stood at 30.7 percent, while return on average assets (ROAA) was 3.1 percent.

*Calculated without the forbearance introduced by BRSA

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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.

BBVA has formalized a €25 million venture debt transaction with roadsurfer, a German company specializing in outdoor mobility. The financing aims to support the international expansion of the leading camper van rental platform and accelerate its growth across Europe and North America.

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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.

Clean technologies, also known as 'cleantech', are technologies that contribute to sustainability and environmental protection. This includes innovative solutions for  both climate change adaptation and mitigation, ranging from emission reduction to biodiversity protection and water treatment.

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.

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