The number of smartphone users in Peru is expected to reach 8.6 million by the end of 2016, covering 27.9% of the population. This would represent an 18.6% increase from 2015, according to the 5th Congress on Business in the Digital Age.

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BBVA Compass announced today that Doug Prevett has been named its market president of Orlando, where he will lead efforts to increase brand awareness and represent the bank’s interests in the market.

According to a lastminute.com report, the average amount Spaniards have spent on travel so far this year is €2,311, up 13% from 2015. Spaniards are among the Europeans that have traveled the most, with an average of 34 trips in the past five years, behind the French with an average of 38.

Only 3% of Spaniards think they don’t need to save for the future, while 97% of Spaniards between the age of 25 and 75 do think it is necessary, according to a study by BBVA, JP Morgan, M&G, Mirabaud and Schroders

You never know what job you’ll end up doing. Alejandro Garrido ―BBVA Provincial― is living proof of that. He decided to make a radical career change.

The World Health Organization has warned that 92% of the world’s population lives in places with high levels of pollution. Pollution causes nearly three million deaths a year.

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For the first time, digital payments grew in 2015 by 10%, reaching 426.3 billion operations, according to a Capgemini study. This figure far exceeds this payment’s  record of 8.9% in 2014, when 387.3 billion operations took place.