For the fifth year running BBVA Banca Privada has been named the best private bank in Spain in the 2014 edition of The Global Private Banking Awards held by the prestigious international banking journals The Banker, and PWM –part of the Financial Times Group.
Innovation
Innovation
How are Spanish startups funded? Which formula is best suited to their needs? This was one of the subjects debated at the Entrepreneur Week organized by Google that was held at the BBVA Innovation Center in Madrid (Spain).
As an alternative to the intrusiveness of some wearable computers, researchers present a small tube you hold up to your eye.
BBVA Corporate & Investment Banking has been chosen as Best Domestic Cash Manager in Colombia, Peru and Venezuela, according to the results of a survey of this activity by the specialized publication Euromoney. This is the third time running that BBVA Provincial has received this award in Venezuela, and the second time in Colombia. It is also the first time that Peru heads the ranking.
The BBVA Innovation Center was the venue for 'Exporting to Latam', an informal event organized by Emprendedores magazine which was attended by Nicolás Mouze, marketing and sales manager of DHL Express, and Rodrigo Quirós, DHL sales manager for Latin America. They went over the details of foreign trade and stressed that the time is right for Spanish SMEs to establish trade links with Latin America. The event was attended by top executives of companies such as Grupo Albión, ONO and Pacadar, among others. The main issues addressed at the meeting are detailed below by Nicolás Mouze and Rodrigo Quirós.
BBVA has been selected as one of the winners of the WLMT awards. These awards are granted by the Human Resources consulting firm Intrama in collaboration with the Madrid Regional Government and the Spanish Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality. BBVA was chosen for genera!, its gender diversity website. Paloma Piqueras, global manager of BBVA Asset Management and representative of the Group's Diversity Plan, accepted the award at the offices of the Madrid Regional Government.
Peter Thiel says he’s trying to get entrepreneurs to go after bigger problems than the ones Silicon Valley is chasing.
The Spanish language edition of the MIT Technology review, in collaboration with BBVA, has chosen the ten Spanish youth who have most distinguished themselves this year with respect to their innovative character in their respective fields. These are the winners of the "Innovators under-35" awards.
Computer studies, sciences and development
BBVA Ventures announces investment in supply chain finance company Taulia
BBVA Ventures, the corporate venture arm of BBVA Group that invests in disruptive startups in the financial services industry, announced today that it has made an investment in Taulia, a San Francisco-based company that is digitizing the traditional supply chain finance process with its cloud-based platform.
The robot weaves between the corn rows, applying fertilizer as it goes thanks to GPS.