As indicated in Euroforum’s latest report, before the summer, just 1 in 3 Spanish companies had planned their training and/or management development for the rest of the year. Furthermore, large corporations, including those on the IBEX 35, tend to be the most forward-looking when it comes to defining their long-term training plans.

Fifty-years ago today on June 27th, 1967 the world of retail banking changed in a significant way.

BBVA CEO Carlos Torres Vila said that BBVA “wants to give its customers and clients the best service by using innovation to transform and disrupt its business as it works to bring the age of opportunity to everyone.” This was the core message the BBVA CEO delivered in a keynote speech to a packed audience at the Money 20/20 event in Copenhagen - the leading fintech event in Europe.

The latest data published by the Spanish National Institute of Statistics (INE) indicate that 408,384 babies were born in 2016 – 11,906 fewer than the previous year, which represents a 2.8% decline. Since 2008, when the greatest number of births was registered of the past 30 years, with 519,779, the number has dropped by 21.4%.

Propel Venture Partners announced its participation as a lead investor in a funding round for EaseCentral, a platform for managing health insurance for small- and medium-sized companies (SMEs) in the United States.

According to a University of Hawaii study (Manoa, U.S.) published in Nature Climate Change, 30% of the world’s population is currently exposed to potentially mortal heat for 20 or more days per year. The study also found that if CO2 emissions are not drastically reduced, 74% of the global population will be exposed to lethal heat events. The study suggests that it is practically inevitable that excessive heat will pose a threat to human life.

Market Research Future’s latest report predicts that the digital banking market will grow at a compounded annual rate of 8% until 2022. The report indicates that this growth is due to factors such as easy access, availability, convenience, and quick and efficient transactions, among others.

65.6 million people in the world had been forcefully displaced from their homes in 2016 due to war, violence or persecution. This represents a 300,000 increase from the previous year, according to data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Carlos Torres Vila, CEO of BBVA, today said the advances in the Group’s transformation “allow us to have a very clear vision of what we are building and has created a momentum that today is unstoppable and which translates into execution and results.” During his speech at the opening of the seminar organized by APIE (The Association of Economic Journalists) and the UIMO (Menéndez Pelayo International University), this year entitled “ The Fourth Revolution: How does the digital agenda affect the economy and industry?”  The CEO also stressed that “at BBVA, we have a project, a great opportunity, and everything we do, or don´t do, has to be analyzed in light of the transformation.”