BBVA has signed a 240 million euro sustainable loan in favor of the Autonomous Community of Madrid, the first loan of this kind granted by the bank to an autonomous region in Spain.

“Developing better solutions for customers through technology,” is one of the goals of BBVA. And the bank is managing to achieve it. CEO Carlos Torres Vila, along with CFO Jaime Sáenz de Tejada, used the occasion of the presentation of bank’s second quarter 2017 results to offer some interesting data on the bank´s digital transformation.

Türkiye Garanti Bankası A.Ş., announced its financial statements dated June 30, 2017. With an asset size of TL 335 billion 942 million 185 thousand, Garanti’s contribution to the economy through cash and non-cash lending reached TL 272 billion 980 million 362 thousand, based on the consolidated financials. The Bank posted a net income of TL 3 billion 100 million 273 thousand in the first six months of 2017. The Bank delivered an ROAE (Return on Average Equity) of 18.1% and an ROAA (Return on Average Assets) of 2.1%.

The data included in the latest Federal Reserve Consumers and Mobile Financial Services report, published by Forbes, shows how quickly people are adopting mobile banking apps. For the past five years, the number of mobile phone owners with a bank account using a mobile banking app has doubled, reaching 43% in 2015.

A global cyberattack could lead to $53 billion in financial losses, according to a Lloyd’s of London report co-led by Cyence and covered by Reuters. The study explored the possible financial losses that would result from a hypothetical attack on the cloud and computer operating systems around the world.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) did not alter its forecast for global economic growth this year and next, although it did slightly increase its expectations for growth in the eurozone and China,  Reuters reports. The IMF is predicting 3.5% global growth in 2017 and 3.6% in 2018.

Some 12.9 million babies around the world did not receive any vaccinations in 2016, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF report. The study demonstrates the need to progress in this field, which is so crucial to children’s health.  This means that 1 in 10 babies were not immunized against tetanus, whooping cough, diphtheria, in addition to other potentially fatal diseases.

According to a report by the Commission for the Prevention and Treatment of Dementia in "The Lancet", and covered by ABC, up to 35% of cases of dementia can be prevented by addressing nine risk factors associated with lifestyle.

BBVA has decided to move forward the publication of its second quarter 2017 results to July 27, a day earlier than originally scheduled, in order to facilitate its coverage, given the large number of presentations in the sector the following day.

According to a recent survey on Social perception of innovation in Spain by Fundación Cotec and Sigma Dos, 64% of the Spanish labor force feels capable of competing in the increasingly automated and technological labor market.