Tagged: bbva

March 5, 2018 @ 3:41 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

BBVA Open Talent, a fintech competition, announced on Monday it will this year mark its tenth anniversary by working with more start-ups than ever before. Organizers revealed that the competition will look to find the very best fintech ideas from anywhere in the world before… Read More

January 31, 2018 @ 9:39 am By Erin Hobey  |  

The European online alternative finance market grew by 41 per cent to 7.7 billion euros in 2016, according to the 3rd annual European Alternative Finance Industry Benchmarking Report by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance. The report entitled “Expanding Horizons” indicates that online alternative finance showed… Read More

September 30, 2017 @ 10:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, BBVA named DOV-E the winner of its Open Talent FinTech for Companies Challenge. As previously reported, the company revealed that it launched the “fintech games” in order to find the most innovative startups across the world to provide opportunities for. Based in Israel, DOV-E provides… Read More

August 14, 2017 @ 11:46 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday, BBVA announced the finalists for its Open Talent FinTech for Companies Challenge. The company revealed that it launched the “fintech games” in order to find the most innovative startups across the world to provide opportunities for. “After eight years of focusing purely on seeking… Read More

May 31, 2017 @ 1:56 pm By Therese Torris  |  

Gregoire de Lestapis has left traditional banking, most recently the direction of BBVA France, for the world of fintech entrepreneurship. In 2016, he joined Lendix, the French SME lending group, as head of its Spanish subsidiary and member of the executive team. In this interview,… Read More

January 25, 2017 @ 1:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

The 2017 World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland last week, will soon become a distant memory as participants and observers jet back to their day jobs. But one of the interesting topics tackled as the seminal gathering was the emerging environment of financial innovation… Read More

December 27, 2016 @ 3:46 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Spanish banking group, BBVA, recently announced it has acquired, Openpay, a fintech startup and payment service provider (PSP) that facilitates e-commerce, including on mobile devices, for large businesses and SMEs.  According to BBVA, Openpay combines a cutting-edge, real-time platform that allows users to make card,… Read More

August 10, 2016 @ 2:46 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Holvi, a Finland-based fintech startup, has officially been acquired by multinational Spanish banking group, BBVA. Founded in 2011, Holvi notably provides entrepreneurs and SMEs with a “regulated one-stop-shop” to collect income, manage expense and offer a real-time view of finances, which includes online sales platform, invoicing… Read More

April 14, 2016 @ 11:54 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Global investment in fintech ventures in the first quarter of 2016 reached $5.3 billion, a 67 percent increase over the same period last year, and the percentage of investments going to fintech companies in Europe and Asia-Pacific nearly doubled to 62 percent. These are among… Read More

March 15, 2016 @ 9:11 am By Therese Torris  |  

Will fintech startups cause the demise of banks or come to their rescue? This was one of the topics debated at The “Future of Banking” event held by The Economist in Paris on March 10th 2016. The Future of Banking was aptly subtitled “Survival of… Read More

February 16, 2016 @ 6:10 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Spanish Bank BBVA is banking on fintech’s success. Having launched the BBVA Ventures fund in 2013 with $100 million to invest in digital fintech startups, the bank recently added $150 million in funds. The bank will be partnering with Propel Venture Partners, according to Money Market UK…. Read More

November 24, 2015 @ 12:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

The  future of banking is almost here and Atom Bank, a digital only platform, has just received a solid £45 million investment from BBVA. The capital injection will give BBVA a 29.5% ownership stake in Atom. According to Atom, this completes the company’s £85 million… Read More

July 3, 2013 @ 8:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a lengthy report published earlier today banking group BBVA address a wide range of financial industry challenges which included the disruptive innovation of debt and equity crowdfunding. Stating the  “financial industry faces its most dramatic transformation in modern history because of increased online and… Read More