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July 15, 2026 @ 4:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BBVA is deploying generative artificial intelligence to examine real-world dialogues between clients and its relationship managers. This initiative moves beyond traditional feedback mechanisms like satisfaction surveys, aiming to deliver a more nuanced and accurate view of the actual user experience across various touchpoints. The Spanish… Read More

July 7, 2026 @ 11:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BBVA has completed the first real-world transaction initiated by an artificial intelligence agent on behalf of one of its cardholders. Conducted in collaboration with Visa (NYSE: V), this test demonstrates that AI systems can now securely handle purchases using existing payment networks and live merchant systems…. Read More

June 9, 2026 @ 11:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BBVA has rolled out a machine learning operations (MLOps) system in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS). This new setup integrates directly into the bank’s comprehensive ADA platform, which serves as its unified global hub for data and artificial intelligence capabilities. The initiative aims to… Read More

June 28, 2025 @ 2:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In Frankfurt, BBVA officially launched its new digital bank in Germany. It combines technology, through one of the most widely-used financial apps in the world, with a new value proposition: an “interest-bearing checking account paying three percent for the first 12 months, and a debit… Read More

May 23, 2025 @ 7:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BBVA is launching a new version of its app in Spain, with a unique native code that is “scalable and exportable” to all countries where the bank operates. This technological overhaul, which includes “an artificial intelligence (AI) integration, marks a turning point in digital banking.”… Read More

April 15, 2025 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BBVA has granted £15m in venture debt to Plum, reaffirming its role as a key lender to the UK’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, which is considered to be an important region in its broader strategy. In line with this, last October the banking institution had reportedly “set… Read More

September 10, 2024 @ 7:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BBVA’s institutional and private banking clients in Switzerland, as well as those with a NewGen account, can now manage their USDC funds on the same platform where they handle their traditional investments. They can exchange, custody, or automatically “convert USDC in near real-time into euros,… Read More

July 23, 2024 @ 10:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

With the development of this new project, Telefónica Tech has become one of BBVA‘s main strategic partners in cybersecurity. The bank will incorporate the latest advances of the technology company, “supported by its global experience and the advantages offered by intelligence to detect, identify and… Read More

May 23, 2024 @ 8:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

After years at the forefront of projects and research based on artificial intelligence (AI), BBVA takes a “decisive step” in the use of generative AI in its main markets. On the one hand, it has prioritized “around 100 projects that will be developed with different… Read More

May 5, 2024 @ 5:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BBVA proposes that Banco Sabadell merge both entities to create a European financial service provider. In a letter addressed to the Board of Directors of Banco Sabadell, BBVA emphasizes that the combination of both entities “would give rise to the most attractive industrial project in… Read More

February 26, 2024 @ 3:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Through a new partnership, BBVA Spark will access Capchase‘s technology, which enables a digital analysis of clients through innovative technologies such as open banking, and live connections to ERPs (financial management software) or electronic invoicing sources. This process speeds up decision-making and ensures “that financing… Read More

January 7, 2024 @ 6:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BBVA is looking to spot and train the best in-house talent in the use of the large language models (LLMs) that are behind the success of the likes of ChatGPT, as it drives the exploration of projects based on generative artificial intelligence. To succeed in… Read More

December 8, 2023 @ 6:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In 2021, BBVA in Switzerland was a pioneer among large Eurozone banks when it introduced a bitcoin trading and custody service. This was later expanded to “include ether, thus allowing interested investors the possibility of trading directly with the two most important crypto-assets on the… Read More

August 10, 2023 @ 8:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Garanti BBVA, which claims to be a leading force in digitization in the Turkish banking industry, has announced the launching of Garanti BBVA Digital Assets, the first venture of its subsidiary Garanti BBVA Financial Technologies. With a pilot already in progress, the company will initially… Read More

July 16, 2023 @ 11:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Iberpay and Spanish banks such as BBVA, Santander and CaixaBank have carried out the first test of this pioneering service in Europe in anticipation of the official entry into force, on November 28th, of the new One-Leg-Out Instant Credit Transfer (OCT Inst) scheme of the… Read More

July 5, 2023 @ 5:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The financial institution is launching a new job portal “to attract people with technological backgrounds in the different countries where it has a presence.” The Group expects to end 2023 “with over 2,600 new hires of this type of professionals, 1,000 of which will be… Read More

June 18, 2023 @ 7:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced that Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. (BBVA), a global banking leader, will use AWS “to deliver advanced analytics and data services in the cloud, taking a decisive step in its data and… Read More

September 16, 2022 @ 9:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BBVA New Gen, the investment product offered by the Group’s Swiss franchise, has completed its first year of existence. In a move to streamline the onboarding process, the bank now “lets prospective customers sign up online just by uploading a ‘selfie’, after which their identity… Read More

July 27, 2022 @ 10:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BBVA has implemented a comprehensive cloud-based solution that “simplifies the process of sending and validating information, providing carbon footprint indicators and emission reduction tracking figures.” It is a platform that will “enable active, data-driven management of its sustainability policies.” Sustainability is one of the transforming… Read More

April 5, 2022 @ 8:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The BBVA and Anthemis partnership led the first pre-seed funding for Wiserentr with an investment of €1 million. The Spanish startup raised “a total of €1.6 million in the funding round, in which Shard Capital also participated.” Its service “reinvents the way to access high-end… Read More