Garanti BBVA has completely overhauled BonusFlaş. With a modern interface, faster NFC Mobile Contactless and QR payment flows, enhanced card management, personalized offers and digital wallet features, BonusFlaş brings wallet, rewards, payments and cards together in a single platform.

Through this new card integration, Garanti BBVA clients can now view and manage cards issued by different banks via a single screen. The feature enables users to track key details such as credit limits, transaction activity, and reward points associated with cards held at other institutions. In addition to individual customers, merchants, SMEs, and corporate clients can also view cards from different banks in one place, allowing them to manage their financial position in a more comprehensive and integrated way. Implemented in line with Open Banking regulations, the feature means that clients no longer need to switch between multiple banking […]

BBVA has created an artificial intelligence assistant with ChatGPT Enterprise to support data analysis at Internal Audit, from validating and designing tests to interpreting results. The solution—always with a human overseeing it—enables more consistent use of analytics and is expected to increase productivity by around 10% in audits that call for large-scale data analysis. It also reduces manual and repetitive tasks and frees up time for activities where human professional judgment is essential, such as analyzing anomalies and assessing risks.

BBVA Spark has granted €4 million in financing to TaxDown, a fintech specialized in digital taxation in Spain with a presence in Latin America. The operation will accelerate the company’s growth, the development of new AI-based solutions and the expansion of its technological team. This financing benefits from the support of the European Union – NextGenerationEU and the European Investment Fund, with with Spain supporting the program through the InvestEU State compartment.

BBVA is making its conversational application available to ChatGPT users, allowing them to directly access information about the bank’s products and services in Italy and Germany right from the assistant. BBVA is one of the first financial companies to offer its own app within ChatGPT, one of the most widely used conversational assistants in the world.

For years, discussions around artificial intelligence in business have focused on the technology itself: which models to use, which tools to deploy, and which use cases to prioritize. In many organizations, that stage is largely behind us. AI is now part of everyday operations across multiple functions. As a result, the real challenge has shifted.

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies has gone in this eighteenth edition to engineers Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen for designing the cryptographic technologies that “underpin today’s digital age,” in the words of the committee, protecting the security of “millions of connected devices worldwide.”