BBVA

428 results about this entity

Period: 22 Jul 2005 - 10 Mar 2025

BBVA-backed digital banking startup targets gig economy workers

Azlo, a BBVA-backed digital banking platform targeting the fast-growing army of freelancers and self-employed Americans who make up the gig economy, has opened its virtual doors.

BBVA hires Álvaro Garrido from Nordea to lead new information security and engineering risk unit

BBVA announced the creation of the Information Security & Engineering Risk (IS&ER) unit, a new area within Engineering, to coordinate the group’s information security, cybersecurity and engineering risk efforts.

BBVA reaches digital tipping point in Spain

BBVA has reached an important milestone in its continued drive towards technology focussed banking, with a key digital tipping point reached in Spain.

BBVA Switzerland debuts digital signatures

BBVA in Switzerland has just become the first private financial institution in the country to offer its clients the digital signature service, which facilitates the management and signing of documents and provides an improved user experience.

BBVA-backed Covault launches digital ID protection app

A digital ID startup backed by BBVA has launched a mobile app that uses biometrics and private key technology to help users securely store, share and verify their identities and documents.

BBVA enjoys Black Friday bonanza

Spain's BBVA experienced a 400% surge in sales of one-click credit products after joining in the traditionally retailer-led Black Friday discount shopping frenzy.

BBVA applies blockchain tech to Letters of Credit

BBVA has applied blockchain technology from Wave to reduce the time taken to submit, verify and authorise an international trade transaction from seven to ten days, to just 2.5 hours

BBVA to deploy Samsung iris scanning for mobile log-in

Samsung and BBVA today presented the iris scanning feature, which will allow BBVA customers with Samsung-compatible smartphones to log on to the bank’s Spanish mobile banking app just by looking at their displays.

Design Thinking pays off for BBVA

BBVA is attributing a new approach to Design Thinking and continuous customer feedback to a massive uplift in usage of its mobile banking app since its relaunch in mid-September.

BBVA signs global networking alliance with Telefonica

BBVA today signed a global strategic agreement with Telefónica that will allow the bank to optimize its communications, increase the capacity of its technological network and facilitate operations in the “cloud.”

AI startup Change wins BBVA Open Talent competition

An artificial inteligence startup aiming to give everyone their own virtual personal financial advisor has been named as the winner of the 2017 BBVA Open Talent Competition.

Sibos 2017: Blockchain - reality or utopia

Sunny optimism faced off with hard-nosed pragmatism during an early Sibos session on blockchain in the cash and securities settlement space, as ConsenSys rep Monica Singer tried desperately to win over cynical bankers.