BBVA

411 results about this entity

Period: 22 Jul 2005 - 07 Mar 2024

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BBVA records jump in customer acquisition through digital channels

Nearly two and a half million people chose digital channels to become BBVA customers in 2020.

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BBVA adds subscription management and utility price alerts to mobile app

As part of its work around helping people better understand their financial health and make better financial decisions, BBVA USA recently launched BBVA Insights in its online banking and mobile banking app.

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BBVA sells Holvi to co-founder

Spanish banking giant BBVA has sold Holvi to an investment firm set up by one of the Finnish fintech's founders. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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BBVA pumps further $150 million into fintech venture fund Propel

BBVA is to invest as much as $150 million in its independent fintech venture fund Propel, bringing its total commitment to over $400 million.

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Simple shuts down

Simple, the original neobank, is being shut down ahead of parent BBVA USA's acquisition by PNC.

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BBVA, Standard Chartered get into crypto-custody game

BBVA's Swiss unit is preparing to launch a service for the trading and custody of digital assets, beginning with bitcoin.

/retail

BBVA establishes joint venture loans business with Telefónica

BBVA and Telefónica have established a joint venture company to sell loans to consumers and companies in Colombia.

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Sabadell looks to offload TSB as BBVA merger falls through

Spanish bank Banco Sabadell is considering the sale of its troublesome UK unit TSB Bank, following the collapse of merger talks with BBVA.

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BBVA rolls out career development tool

‘Opportunity’ is a new tool that provides employees with the instruments to independently design their training, development and ultimately, their career within the company.

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BBVA centralises expense management with new Global Commercial Card programme

BBVA has developed Global Commercial Cards, a solution which allows companies to have greater control of employees’ use of commercial cards simplifying the processes of expense submission and approval.

PNC agrees $11.6 billion to deal to acquire BBVA USA Bancshares

The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC) and the Spanish financial group, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. (NYSE and MAD: BBVA) today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for PNC to acquire BBVA USA Bancshares, Inc., including its U.S. banking subsidiary, BBVA USA, for a purchase price of $11.6 billion to be funded with cash on hand in a fixed price structure.

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Spanish banks extend smart money proof-of-concept trials

Banco Sabadell, Banco Santander, Bankia, BBVA and CaixaBank will be initiating a new sectorial proof of concept to experiment the distribution of digital money this November.

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BBVA puts more money into biometrics JV Veridas

BBVA and technology firm das-Nano are pumping EUR4 million into Veridas, the digital identity verification startup they created in 2017.

BBVA USA offers Heloc loans with Prosper

BBVA USA, the U.S. subsidiary of Madrid-based BBVA, today announced it is offering a digital Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC) through its website, powered by Prosper, a leading online marketplace for consumer loans.

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BBVA moves market data network to AWS

BBVA has moved its market data distribution network to Amazon Web Services, providing an at-scale platform for the equity markets area of its Corporate & Investment Banking unit that is capable of handling increasingly vast volumes of data

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BBVA demonstrates safety of new blank payment cards in public display

BBVA has gone to extreme lengths to demonstrate the safety of its new line of 'blank' payment cards by publicly displaying the card issued to the bank's head of marketing on a billboard in Madrid's busiest shopping street.

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BBVA digitises the supply chain

BBVA has created a new supply chain finance solution to compete and lead the business in Latin America, the U.S. and Europe.

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BBVA to roll out blank payment card in Spain

BBVA has launched Aqua, a new line of pioneering credit cards in Spain which feature a dynamic CVV code and do not contain card numbers (PAN) or expiration dates printed on them.

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Almost 800 coders will compete in BBVA 2020 hackathon

The BBVA Hackathon 2020 has attracted a total of 3,544 candidates so far, of which 792 made the final cut.

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BBVA joins with Swift to test gpi to Faster Payments link in UK

BBVA remains committed to this global network, participating in a new pilot project with which it has managed to integrate payments from the SWIFT gpi network with the U.K.’s national instant payment system.