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BBVA reinforces its strategy in Latin America with an ambitious expansion plan in Brazil, the largest wholesale market in the region. With a growing team and a strong focus on sustainability, the entity plans to deploy local capabilities by 2025 to serve more than 250 key companies in Brazil.
The Garanti BBVA-sponsored fire prevention partnership dubbed ‘Türkiye's Life: Fire Management Grant Program’ and headed by WWF Türkiye has successfully completed three new projects. One initiative, managed by Natura, focused on protecting caracal populations; another developed an eco-kit to leverage local knowledge and practices for preventing and fighting forest fires in the Köyceğiz-Gökova area; while the third project implemented fire-resilient production models.
BBVA is the world’s thirteenth most advanced bank on account of its ongoing efforts to integrate data and AI technologies, according to the Evident AI Index. More precisely, the bank ranks first in Spain and fourth in Europe, where it is widely recognized as offering outstanding professional development opportunities for its AI specialists and for having defined a Group-wide strategy that permeates the upper echelons of the organization.
BBVA and the owners of El Celler de Can Roca have renewed their partnership for three more years. On the 10th anniversary of the sponsorship, they are celebrating this alliance that has emerged from their shared values, and plan to continue developing new projects.
BBVA Chair Carlos Torres Vila participated on Thursday in a new edition of the BBVA Spark Summit in Barcelona, where he made a commitment, in front of more than 400 tech companies and investors, to continue promoting Catalonia as a key center of innovation and entrepreneurship. In this regard, he emphasized that the integration with Banco Sabadell aims to build “a stronger, more competitive and more profitable bank” that provides the support that entrepreneurs and businesses in general need. He also underscored the potential of Catalonia, and Barcelona in particular, as an innovation hub, attracting investors, businesses and talent.
BBVA was presented the ‘Sustainability Action 24’ award by Compromiso RSE for the bank’s support of the clean technology ecosystem. The organization specifically recognizes the creation of a unit dedicated exclusively to financing cleantech, as well as BBVA being the only financial institution participating in the ‘Cleantech for Iberia’ initiative.
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New York Climate Week, held alongside the United Nations General Assembly during the last week of September, has confirmed its status as a key venue—second only to the COPs—for advancing the global sustainability agenda.
The combination between BBVA and Banco Sabadell, once approved, will create a stronger, more efficient institution that is better able to compete in the European and global landscape. The resulting bank, with more than 100 million customers worldwide and almost 7,000 branches, will generate value for all stakeholders: shareholders, customers, employees and society as a whole.
BBVA Chair Carlos Torres Vila, together with more than 110 Chairs and CEOs of large global companies, has joined a new declaration encouraging global leaders and the participants of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Baku (COP29) to “double down on climate action.” This letter from the Alliance of CEO Climate Leaders, promoted by the World Economic Forum (WEF), calls on governments and companies to join forces and address challenges because “every fraction of a degree counts” in the race to net zero emissions by 2050.
BBVA was recognized by Global Finance as the bank with the best open banking services for companies globally. This award joins 12 other accolades that the prestigious magazine has presented to the bank this year. On a global level, the awards for the best bank for corporate clients, and the award recognizing BBVA’s AI Factory as one of the best financial innovation laboratories stand out. By country, Spain was recognized as having the best sustainable finance and is considered the most innovative bank for companies, and Peru received the award for the best bank for SMEs.
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BBVA’s CEO Onur Genç remarked on Monday that the integration of BBVA and Banco Sabadell will be beneficial to Spain and its economy, and made a point of emphasizing the bank’s “firm commitment to SMEs.” According to Genç, this integration will enhance lending to small and mid-sized companies (SMEs). “We are doing this transaction to boost lending, particularly to SMEs,” he stated while taking part in the 15th Financial Forum organized by Spanish newspaper Expansión and KPMG. “It wouldn’t make sense to carry out this transaction to reduce the segment we value the most at Banco Sabadell,” he added.
BBVA is one of the first banks in Visa's global network to use VTAP, a new Visa platform that enables financial institutions to create and manage digital tokens backed by fiat currencies such as the euro and the dollar. BBVA will use VTAP to create tokens on the public Ethereum blockchain with expected live pilots in 2025.
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BBVA and leading global investment firm KKR have formed a new strategic partnership to support the decarbonization of the economy. As part of the strategic partnership, BBVA has committed $200M (€187 million¹) to KKR´s Global Climate Strategy, which invests in solutions at scale to support the transition to a low-carbon economy. Both companies made the announcement during Climate Week, which is being held in New York this week.
Header photo, from left to right: Emmanuel Lagarrigue, Partner, Global Co-Head of Climate at KKR; Javier Rodríguez Soler, Global Head of Sustainability and Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) at BBVA; Regina Gil, Head of CIB USA BBVA; Charlie Gailliot, Partner, Global Co-Head of Climate at KKR; Antonio Bravo, Global Head of Sustainability & CIB Strategy and Corporate Clients Coverage at BBVA.
Campus BBVA is the bank's training framework designed to revolutionize, transform and enhance learning adaptability. This corporate model provides a plethora of opportunities for professional development, allowing employees to progress at their own pace in alignment with their career goals.
BBVA shareholders will receive on Oct. 10 a gross dividend, against 2024 earnings, of €0.29 per share, 81 percent higher than a year earlier. This is the highest interim dividend to be paid by BBVA to date. The bank will thus distribute about €1.7 billion in cash to shareholders. Following this dividend, from 2021 BBVA will have distributed about €15 billion in dividends and share buybacks.
Koray Öztopçu, Head of Consumer Finance at Garanti BBVA, recently penned an Op-Ed piece on artificial intelligence (AI), new generations and consumer finance. In his article, he claims that Generations Y and Z account for a growing slice of the consumer pie, thus requiring brands to pursue creative strategies on various fronts, from the relationship they build with consumers to the values they embrace. They must also keep up with new technologies if they hope to offer creative digital financing options. Notably, a technological tidal wave is triggering transformation in many sectors and processes, from production all the way through to consumption.
BBVA CEO Onur Genç, speaking on Wednesday at Bank of America's annual investor conference, stated that the process in the Banco Sabadell transaction is actually relatively straightforward. "Spain has excellent institutions, and the CNMC, the competition supervisor, is certainly one of them," he said. Genç noted that similar deals have been approved in the past and expressed confidence that, “If the same methodology is applied, the deal should be cleared in phase 1, as there are no competition issues.” On Mexico, he emphasized the country's highly positive prospects and reaffirmed that the bank "will continue to deliver reliable high returns."
Next year will witness the entry into force of the European regulation on the provision of cryptoasset services, aka the MiCA Regulation, and with it a whole new generation of players is expected to break into the world of digital assets, as indeed prophesied at the 7th Blockchain Forum organized by El Confidencial. “Now more than ever, banks have an essential role to play in consolidating the cryptoasset ecosystem,” remarked Alfonso Gómez, CEO of BBVA Switzerland, who took part in the forum, where he proclaimed that BBVA was the first big bank to launch a bitcoin custody and trading service in Europe.
Garanti BBVA has fully digitized its vehicle loan process, allowing individuals—following companies and self-employed customers—to obtain digital loans for nearly 40 automobile brands. Loan applications and onboarding can be completed on a smartphone without the need for any printed documents. BBVA’s Turkish franchise is the first and only bank in the country to offer this innovative service.
Garanti BBVA continues to add new cryptocurrencies to its mobile app. The bank is now providing service for XRP, the crypto asset with the fifth largest market, and Arbitrum (ARB), a crypto asset that can be transferred on the ERC-20 network. They join Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), USD Coin (USDC), Avalanche (AVAX) and Chiliz (CHZ).
At a recent meeting of the Spanish Green Growth Group, key players in the cleantech ecosystem praised the new Industry Law as a catalyst for transforming Spain into Europe’s next industrial hub for clean technologies. Speakers pointed to the challenge of achieving net-zero emissions as an opportunity for the country.
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BBVA, the first bank in Spain to support the whole process of setting up a company, without charging anything for the initial advice
BBVA has taken yet another step forward in its commitment to the Spanish business community. For the first time ever, a bank will help, together with Ayuda T Pymes, all those entrepreneurs who are looking to set up their business, accompanying them from start to finish and at no additional cost. What this means is that any entrepreneur can now turn their business idea into a lawfully incorporated company within a matter of days, without having to worry about all the red tape. BBVA is expanding the support it offers its customers, as it supports entrepreneurs even before they become customers of the bank.
BBVA Chair Carlos Torres Vila spoke in Barcelona on Tuesday, emphasizing Catalonia's strong "future appeal" and the bank's commitment to supporting its growth. He stressed the region's importance to BBVA, noting that Catalonia is the largest contributor to the bank’s business in Spain, with one in four new SME customers coming from the region. The combination with Banco Sabadell, he added, will further strengthen BBVA’s commitment to Catalonia and its SMEs: “We aim to continue growing with Catalonia and the transaction with Banco Sabadell reflects that.” On the topic of post-merger concentration in the banking sector, the BBVA Chair stated that "this transaction will not create competition issues, as it will result in a smaller institution compared to previous mergers.”
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BBVA Chair Carlos Torres Vila spoke on Tuesday at a conference hosted by the business confederation Cecot, where he shared with Catalan business owners his vision of the global context and the role played by companies in economic growth and job creation. In his speech, he underscored BBVA's commitment to SMEs, a business in which it wants to continue to grow with the integration of Banco Sabadell. Regarding competition, he pointed out that the decision rests with the Spanish Competition Commission (CNMC), for which BBVA has the utmost respect. “The transaction at no time exceeds the market share thresholds established in the competition analysis. Moreover, if we compare it with previous transactions, many of them are of similar size, so, applying the same methodology, we expect it to be approved with similar parameters," he added. Therefore, in the opinion of Carlos Torres Vila, “We do not see any competition issues in the transaction with Banco Sabadell.”
BBVA announces its participation in Project Agorá. This project, launched by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), a group of leading central banks, and the Institute of International Finance (IIF), will proceed to the next phase with more than forty private sector financial firms in their exploration of how tokenization can enhance wholesale cross-border payments.
Garanti BBVA, Türkiye’s leading digital bank, is all set to stage ‘Istanbul Venture Day’ to support the startup ecosystem and help ramp up innovative fintech solutions. The event will be held at the Salt Galata center on October 24 and is being organized alongside IE University in Spain, with the close support of the Spanish and Italian consulates. It is essentially the Istanbul leg of the ‘Venture Day’ series being held by IE University ahead of the wider Global South Summit.
At BBVA, we are undergoing a technological revolution that is transforming our software development process. In mid-2021, we launched Horizon, a global initiative aimed at overhauling our digital channels, particularly in the enterprise sector, and enhancing the scalability of our technological platforms to meet the increasing demands for customer interaction. The primary goal is to foster global unity by creating unique technical solutions that can be implemented across multiple countries. This approach optimizes our efforts, speeds up delivery times, and provides us with a competitive edge in an industry where economies of scale are crucial. Additionally, this project has enabled us to adopt a new strategy for executing global programs by forming geographically diverse teams across different countries.
For the second year in a row, the U.S. publication named BBVA one of the best companies in the world in a ranking developed in conjunction with Statista. The financial institution is the top Spanish bank on the list and ranks eighth worldwide.
BBVA Group opened a new office in Houston with the aim of leading the financing of the energy transition in the United States. This move to support its sustainability is spurred by the BBVA´s Group´s plans for growth in the country and forms part of its Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) operations in the United States.