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BBVA creates GPT Store to house employee-generated AI tools

Just five months after BBVA distributed 3,000 ChatGPT Enterprise licenses among its employees, 83 percent have incorporated it into their work routine and have created nearly 3,000 adaptations of the tool for specific tasks, ranging from financial data analysis to help to solve legal questions from clients in less than 24 hours or provide customer insights.

25 November 2024

News/ai

BBVA to train top executives in GenAI

BBVA is creating a training programme to give its top executives a grounding in the use of GenAI to improve productivity.

05 November 2024

News/markets

BBVA Asset Management pilots ‘tokenised’ fund

BBVA Asset Management is investigating the use of blockchain technology for a "tokenised" investment fund.

28 October 2024

News/crypto

Visa launches platform to help banks issue fiat-backed tokens

Visa has unveiled a platform that helps banks issue and manage fiat-backed tokens such as stablecoins on blockchain networks.

04 October 2024

News/crypto

BBVA adds USDC to to crypto asset service in Switzerland

The Swiss unit of Spanish bank BBVA is expanding its cryptocurrency custody and trading services to include USD Coin (USDC).

12 September 2024

News/ai

BBVA doubles AI staff numbers

BBVA has doubled the number of staff working on artificial intelligence to more than 400 as it opens new 'AI Factories' in Mexico and Turkey.

22 August 2024

News/security

BBVA opens global cybersecurity centre in Mexico

BBVA is opening a global cybersecurity centre in Mexico as part of an alliance with IT services company Telefónica Tech aimed at boosting the bank's defences against a rising tide of security-related threats.

22 July 2024

News/retail

BBVA preps German digital bank

Spain's BBVA is planning to launch a consumer digital bank in Germany, according to Bloomberg.

17 June 2024

News/sustainable

BBVA to issue financial sector's first biodiversity bond

BBVA Colombia and IFC are to issue the financial sector’s first biodiversity bond.

05 June 2024

News/ai

BBVA inks OpenAI deal to bring ChatGPT to employees

Spanish banking group BBVA is stepping up its use of artificial intelligence, signing a deal with OpenAI to start rolling out ChatGPT to thousands of employees.

24 May 2024

News/retail

BBVA runs successful trial of distributed quantum simulation in the cloud

BBVA has completed a successful trial of the execution of quantum algorithms across multiple conventional servers in the AWS cloud.

13 May 2024

News/wholesale

BBVA charges forward with hostile bid for Banco Sabadell

Spanish incumbent bank BBVA launched a hostile takeover bid on Thursday to buy out rival Banco Sabadell.

10 May 2024