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                    <title>BBVA's New York Office Earns LEED Gold Certification for Sustainable Construction</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/sustainability/bbvas-new-york-office-earns-leed-gold-certification-for-sustainable-construction/</link>
                    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 08:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[cristobal.baeza]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Infrastructures]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Sustainability]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Sustainability Architecture]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Sustainable Construction]]>
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                            <![CDATA[BBVA has received LEED Gold certification (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) for the sustainability of its office located at 389 9th Avenue in New York. This recognition, awarded by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), accredits the entity's commitment to energy efficiency, responsible use of resources and the creation of healthy spaces for its professionals and customers.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[BBVA has received LEED Gold certification (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) for the sustainability of its office located at 389 9th Avenue in New York. This recognition, awarded by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), accredits the entity's commitment to energy efficiency, responsible use of resources and the creation of healthy spaces for its professionals and customers.]]>
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                    <title>Cleantech carbon capture: a key technology in the fight against climate change</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/sustainability/cleantech-carbon-capture-a-key-technology-in-the-fight-against-climate-change/</link>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 00:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[Sofia Martínez Corrons]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Carbon Footprint]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Cleantech]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Climate change]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Planet]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Sustainability]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Sustainable Construction]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Carbon capture is one of the most promising cleantech solutions for the fight against climate change. Companies like Heirloom are revolutionizing this sector with technologies capable of extracting up to 320,000 tons of carbon dioxide from the air every year.
<h6>Cover photo: EFE</h6>]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Carbon capture is one of the most promising cleantech solutions for the fight against climate change. Companies like Heirloom are revolutionizing this sector with technologies capable of extracting up to 320,000 tons of carbon dioxide from the air every year.
<h6>Cover photo: EFE</h6>]]>
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                    <title>Five key sectors, one global vision: how BBVA CIB supports its corporate clients</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/enterprises/five-key-sectors-one-global-vision-how-bbva-cib-supports-its-corporate-clients/</link>
                    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2025 04:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[Pilar Martínez Fariña]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Capital markets financing]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Cross-border business]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Energy]]>
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                                <![CDATA[International expansion]]>
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                                <![CDATA[International trade]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Investment bank]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Sectorial analysis]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Sustainable Construction]]>
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                            <![CDATA[The bank offers tailored solutions that help large corporations tackle the challenges of the energy transition, regulatory environment, and the decarbonisation of production models. With a global presence and specialized approach, BBVA CIB supports its clients across five strategic sectors — energy, infrastructure and construction, industry and transportation, TMT, and consumer, retail and leisure — with the goal of becoming their financial partner of reference.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[The bank offers tailored solutions that help large corporations tackle the challenges of the energy transition, regulatory environment, and the decarbonisation of production models. With a global presence and specialized approach, BBVA CIB supports its clients across five strategic sectors — energy, infrastructure and construction, industry and transportation, TMT, and consumer, retail and leisure — with the goal of becoming their financial partner of reference.]]>
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                    <title>How the world map of quantum computing is looking</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/innovation/how-the-world-map-of-quantum-computing-is-looking/</link>
                    <pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2023 06:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[María Prados]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Computer studies, sciences and development]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Innovation]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Quantum computing]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Sustainable Construction]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Technology]]>
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                            <![CDATA[The U.S., China and Europe are leading the development of this technology, which uses principles of quantum physics to perform calculations and information processing and has the potential to solve complex problems.
<h6>Presentation in March 2023 of the agreement to install a quantum computing center in San Sebastian, which will house the sixth IBM Quantum System One computer in the world. Image: EFE /Javier Etxezarreta</h6>]]>
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                            <![CDATA[The U.S., China and Europe are leading the development of this technology, which uses principles of quantum physics to perform calculations and information processing and has the potential to solve complex problems.
<h6>Presentation in March 2023 of the agreement to install a quantum computing center in San Sebastian, which will house the sixth IBM Quantum System One computer in the world. Image: EFE /Javier Etxezarreta</h6>]]>
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                    <title>BBVA Mexico announces the 2022 Hackathon to develop innovative solutions</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/bbva-mexico-announces-the-2022-hackathon-to-develop-innovative-solutions/</link>
                    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2022 11:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
                    <dc:creator>
                        <![CDATA[cristobal.baeza]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Research and Cience]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Sustainable Construction]]>
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                            <![CDATA[<a href="https://www.bbvaspark.com/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BBVA Open Innovation</a> aims to support the digital transformation of the financial group and of the ecosystem of entrepreneurs and developers. With this aim in mind, it is bringing together talent from October 21-23, 2022 to create innovative solutions for the challenges proposed by BBVA’s business units in Mexico, Spain, Colombia, Peru and strategic partners in the ecosystem of entrepreneurs.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[<a href="https://www.bbvaspark.com/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BBVA Open Innovation</a> aims to support the digital transformation of the financial group and of the ecosystem of entrepreneurs and developers. With this aim in mind, it is bringing together talent from October 21-23, 2022 to create innovative solutions for the challenges proposed by BBVA’s business units in Mexico, Spain, Colombia, Peru and strategic partners in the ecosystem of entrepreneurs.]]>
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                    <title>Garanti BBVA to offer green loans to real estate developers</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/tr/sustainability/garanti-bbva-to-offer-green-loans-to-real-estate-developers/</link>
                    <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2021 13:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
                    <dc:creator>
                        <![CDATA[Manuel Calvente Orden]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Sustainability]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Sustainable Construction]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Sustainable Finance]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Within a sustainable finance framework, BBVA continues to provide innovative solutions to support Turkey's fight against climate change. This time it's launched new commercial green loans for real estate developers that build and sell buildings with aspecific type of energy certification.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Within a sustainable finance framework, BBVA continues to provide innovative solutions to support Turkey's fight against climate change. This time it's launched new commercial green loans for real estate developers that build and sell buildings with aspecific type of energy certification.]]>
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                    <title>How the Strategy for Spain as an Entrepreneurial Nation will benefit startups and SMEs</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/enterprises/how-the-strategy-for-spain-as-entrepreneurial-nation-will-benefit-startups-and-smes/</link>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2021 01:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[E056427]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Economy]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Enterprises]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Entrepreneurship &amp; Startups]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Innovation]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Strategy and management]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Sustainable Construction]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Spain has set itself the challenge of becoming an attractive country for emerging companies through the Strategy for Spain as an Entrepreneurial Nation. The purpose of the strategy is to promote and boost their formation and development through four milestones: investment, talent, scalability and public sector support for entrepreneurship. ]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Spain has set itself the challenge of becoming an attractive country for emerging companies through the Strategy for Spain as an Entrepreneurial Nation. The purpose of the strategy is to promote and boost their formation and development through four milestones: investment, talent, scalability and public sector support for entrepreneurship. ]]>
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                    <title>BBVA and China Harbour Engineering Company Limited sign green guarantee facility to build the Bogota subway</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/bbva-and-china-harbour-engineering-company-limited-sign-green-guarantee-facility-to-build-the-bogota-subway/</link>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2020 13:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
                    <dc:creator>
                        <![CDATA[elisabet.furioc]]>
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                                <![CDATA[International trade]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Investment bank]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Sustainable Construction]]>
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                            <![CDATA[BBVA's teams in Asia and Colombia secured this cross-border transaction, which will allow Asian client China Harbour Engineering Company Limited (CHEC) to build, operate and service line 1 of the Bogota subway. The landmark agreement will contribute to financing the largest infrastructure project in Colombia’s history, and is also the most ambitious cooperation project the country’s ever signed with China. The transaction is the first one certified by BBVA in Asia in compliance with its sustainable transactional banking framework.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[BBVA's teams in Asia and Colombia secured this cross-border transaction, which will allow Asian client China Harbour Engineering Company Limited (CHEC) to build, operate and service line 1 of the Bogota subway. The landmark agreement will contribute to financing the largest infrastructure project in Colombia’s history, and is also the most ambitious cooperation project the country’s ever signed with China. The transaction is the first one certified by BBVA in Asia in compliance with its sustainable transactional banking framework.]]>
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                    <title>Five technologies that will change the world within five years</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/five-technologies-that-will-change-the-world-within-five-years/</link>
                    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2020 02:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
                    <dc:creator>
                        <![CDATA[Teresa Alameda]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Science and technology]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Sustainability]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Sustainable Construction]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Smart crops, bacteria-detecting knives, and waste-reducing supply chains: These are some of the futurist scenarios that could become a reality if IBM’s predictions prove to be correct. As part of the bank’s Ninja Project — a program to cultivate BBVA’s internal digital talent and culture — IBM was invited to share its predictions with the bank’s employees.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Smart crops, bacteria-detecting knives, and waste-reducing supply chains: These are some of the futurist scenarios that could become a reality if IBM’s predictions prove to be correct. As part of the bank’s Ninja Project — a program to cultivate BBVA’s internal digital talent and culture — IBM was invited to share its predictions with the bank’s employees.]]>
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                    <title>Banks, ready to lead the way towards sustainability</title>
                    <link>https://www.bbva.com/en/banks-ready-to-lead-the-way-towards-sustainability/</link>
                    <pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2019 00:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
                    <dc:creator>
                        <![CDATA[Blanca González del Fresno]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Corporate responsibility]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Responsible banking]]>
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                                <![CDATA[Sustainable Construction]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Over 1,800 participants from the banking industry, governmental authorities, and civil society gathered in Brussels on February 5-6, to take part in what has become the leading forum discussing the future of the European Union’s industry. EU Industry Days 2019, organized by the European Commission, devoted a substantial share of time to social investment and sustainable financing, something that has become an obligation for financial institutions today, according to Antoni Ballabriga, Global Head of Responsible Business, BBVA, who participated in one of the panels.]]>
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                            <![CDATA[Over 1,800 participants from the banking industry, governmental authorities, and civil society gathered in Brussels on February 5-6, to take part in what has become the leading forum discussing the future of the European Union’s industry. EU Industry Days 2019, organized by the European Commission, devoted a substantial share of time to social investment and sustainable financing, something that has become an obligation for financial institutions today, according to Antoni Ballabriga, Global Head of Responsible Business, BBVA, who participated in one of the panels.]]>
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