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Preparing for a COP event is a year-round process. This phase involves a range of activities that connect one annual summit to the next and are designed to keep climate action moving forward. Technical meetings, diplomatic negotiations and international coordination all play a role in steering the way toward each summit.

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Europe and Spain have a historic opportunity ahead of them to enhance the productivity and competitiveness of their economies and accelerate innovation through artificial intelligence (AI). During the opening of the 43rd Seminar of the Association of Economic Information Journalists (APIE) at the Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP), in Santander, BBVA Chair Carlos Torres Vila stated that the key will be to accelerate the adoption of this technology and turn its potential into growth, shared prosperity and greater strategic autonomy. He also explained that BBVA has accelerated its transformation with the goal of leading banking in the age of artificial intelligence. To achieve this, the bank has launched a roadmap aimed at expanding the use of AI across the organization and industrializing the creation, deployment, management and governance of intelligent agents at scale.

BBVA’s Investor Relations team has been recognized at the prestigious IR Impact Awards, held last week in London, winning in the categories of Best Retail IR Strategy and Best Sell-Side Management.

BBVA’s Chair stated this Friday that Europe remains one of the world’s largest economies, with significant strengths, but needs to increase investment in order to compete globally. During the annual conference of the Spanish Banking Association (AEB), the Spanish Federation of Savings Banks (CECA) and the Credit Cooperative Association (Unacc), Carlos Torres Vila noted that the EU does not have a savings problem, but rather a challenge in channeling those savings into productive projects. To achieve this, it is necessary to simplify regulation and complete financial integration. He also highlighted the role of artificial intelligence (AI) as a driver of Europe’s competitiveness. The true competitive advantage, he explained, will come from the ability of European companies to incorporate AI at scale and translate it into productivity, innovation and growth.

Carlos Torres Vila hailed the transformative, unifying power of science and culture at the ceremony for the 18th BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards. At a time marked by complexity and uncertainty, the President of the BBVA Foundation reminded the audience that progress springs from human creativity, from rigor, and from collaboration between people, disciplines and countries.

Speaking at the American Banker Digital Banking Conference in Orlando, BBVA's Global Head of Sustainability and Corporate & Investment Banking shared his perspective on how digital money, artificial intelligence and interoperability are reshaping financial services.

The Climate Summit this November 2026 will have a dual leadership model for the first time in history. With the aim of strengthening multilateral cooperation, Türkiye will host the event and hold the presidency, while Australia will be in charge of the official negotiations.

Garanti BBVA has renewed its syndicated loan under its foreign funding program in line with its Sustainable Debt Financing Framework. The transaction includes sustainability-themed tranches designed to support a clean and just transition in Türkiye, making it the bank’s first thematic syndicated loan.

BBVA Germany is launching its first credit card for customers in Germany in partnership with Mastercard. This new card is free for active users and offers an initial six-month fee-free trial period for new cardholders to experience its benefits without a fee, while delivering state-of-the-art security features and no foreign exchange fees (FX) worldwide. The launch highlights what sets BBVA apart from other digital banks: leveraging the scale and expertise of the BBVA Group, one of the largest banking groups in the world.

Garanti BBVA has served as Sustainability Coordinator on the €400 million Sustainability-Linked Loan (SLL) and the €575 million Sustainability-Linked Interest Rate Swap (IRS) arranged for Limak’s Kınalı–Malkara Motorway Project.

BBVA placed €2.25 billion in a dual-tranche euro-denominated covered bond issuance on Tuesday. In the first tranche, with a three-year maturity, BBVA placed €1.25 billion at a price of mid-swap + 14 basis points (compared with initial price guidance of mid-swap + 20 basis points). In the second tranche, with a seven-year maturity, BBVA placed €1 billion at a price of mid-swap + 27 basis points (compared with initial price guidance of mid-swap + 34 basis points).

FrauDfense, a company owned by BBVA, Banco Santander and CaixaBank, today announces the go-live of FrauDfense Check, its first operational service. This initiative highlights the pioneering and innovative role of the three institutions in promoting sector-wide collaboration models, positioning the Spanish financial industry as an international benchmark in fraud prevention.

The Global Summit of Women 2026, supported by Garanti BBVA, brought together ministers, business leaders, investors, entrepreneurs, and opinion leaders from around the world in Istanbul. Among the speakers was Türkiye’s Minister of Treasury and Finance, Mehmet Şimşek, alongside numerous international guests.

BBVA Mexico participated as bookrunner in Grupo Carso’s bond issuance (Certificados Bursátiles) for an amount of MXN 4.5 billion, identified under ticker symbol GCARSO 26, a transaction that contributes to strengthening the financial strategy of one of Mexico’s most significant business conglomerates.

The Conferences of the Parties (COPs) are annual summits that review international agreements on climate change and promote new global measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect ecosystems.

BBVA has developed a new MLOps architecture together with Amazon Web Services (AWS), integrated into ADA, the bank’s global cloud-based data and artificial intelligence platform, to accelerate the development, validation and deployment of AI models across the Group. The solution enables teams to work more autonomously, reuse common components and automate governance controls, reducing development times by up to 75% in use cases such as personalized customer recommendations and financial forecasting.

Artificial intelligence will bring about a faster and more profound transformation than the digital revolution, drastically altering customer relations, value propositions and the way organizations operate. This was the message BBVA CEO Onur Genç delivered in his presentation at the fintech conference Money2020, where he stressed that differentiation in this new era will hinge on how capable organizations are of transforming and scaling AI across their operations, an area where BBVA is already taking decisive steps.  In addition, he underscored that the bank has established a very clear roadmap to build a more personalized, accessible and proactive banking experience for its clients.

Speaking at the Goldman Sachs investor conference on Wednesday, BBVA’s Global Head of Finance, Luisa Gómez Bravo, noted that AI will be one of the key forces shaping the future of banking and will drive a transformation that is greater, faster, and more disruptive than digitalization, benefiting clients in particular: “We believe AI can become a powerful engine for innovation and value creation for clients and, ultimately, generate significantly greater value for our shareholders.”

BBVA allocated €191.5 million to social programs and initiatives in 2025 globally, an increase of 7.5 percent over 2024. 7.7 million people directly benefited from these activities, which mainly focused on education, accounting for 68 percent of the total resources. These efforts aimed to facilitate access to opportunities and support people and communities in their development.

Garanti BBVA recently unveiled the exhibition ‘We’ve Been in the Future for 80 Years,’ on June 2nd at a special event for the press. The exhibition at Salt Galata chronicles the bank’s extensive journey over eight decades – from its founding in Ankara in 1946 to its current role as a driver of modern banking. Designed as an interactive, immersive experience, the exhibition aims to tell the stories of the employees, customers and stakeholders who have shaped the bank over the years.

BBVA Mexico cemented its leadership in international markets yesterday with the successful placement of $1 billion in senior unsecured notes with a five-year maturity and a fixed rate of 5.4%.

Javier Rodríguez Soler, Global Head of Sustainability and Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB), has been named to American Banker’s inaugural “50 Most Innovative People in Finance” list. The recognition highlights his leadership in accelerating BBVA’s transformation through the integration of artificial intelligence, advanced analytics and sustainability across the bank’s global operations. American Banker also recognized BBVA’s deployment of generative AI tools and continued investment in digital banking and sustainable finance solutions.

The financial institution has been recognized in the first edition of the EPBN-WISE LGBTIQ+ Inclusion Awards as one of the European companies most firmly committed to LGBTIQ+ inclusion in the workplace. The award recognizes organizations that have implemented concrete measures to create safe, diverse, and inclusive working environments.

The AI Transformation area, which sits at the top level of the organization and will be led by Antonio Bravo combines the current Data area with critical technological capabilities to industrialize the creation, deployment and management of artificial intelligence (AI) agents across the organization. This evolution will accelerate the bank’s transformation and enable smarter, more proactive and highly personalized financial services for its customers.

BBVA and the University of Navarra have completed the first two industrial doctorates in data science under their joint program. This pioneering initiative enables working professionals to carry out advanced academic research into real challenges facing the financial sector. Both theses propose ways of developing AI models that can identify the causes behind financial decisions, not just the correlations.

Photo caption (from left to right): Paul G. Tobin, Global Head of Talent and Culture at BBVA; Paloma Grau, Vice President for Research and Sustainability at the University of Navarra; the newly awarded PhDs Paloma Marín and Jesús Renero; and Jesús López Fidalgo, Director of DATAI. / Source: University of Navarra

Agorá has demonstrated the potential of blockchain and programmable technologies to improve the efficiency of international corporate payments while preserving the safety and integrity of the transactions. BBVA is participating in the project along with central banks and more than 40 international financial institutions. The project has validated the feasibility of conducting settlements across currencies and jurisdictions using tokenized central bank reserves and tokenized commercial bank deposits. In upcoming phases it will advance to real-value testing.

Twelve years after its last euro-denominated issuance, Brazil returned this year to the European market with a €5 billion sovereign transaction in which BBVA participated as bookrunner. Beyond the financing itself, the transaction represented a test for Brazilian sovereign credit: measuring the depth of investor demand, rebuilding euro benchmarks and executing with precision in an especially volatile environment.

Garanti BBVA has gone live with its BKM-integrated Request to Pay API, enabling businesses to manage collections directly from their own systems while offering customers a fast, easy, and seamless bill-payment experience. The solution was piloted in partnership with energy company Uludağ Elektrik.

BBVA Mexico acted as joint placement agent for the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) in the year’s second joint issuance of BONDESG and Bonos MS fixed-rate bonds.

BBVA consolidates its activity in sustainable financing by participating as Coordinating Lead Arranger in a USD 1,5 billion financing for Acelen Renewables, supporting the development of a renewable fuels plant in Brazil. The project, one of the most relevant sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) initiatives in the region, is expected to accelerate the decarbonization of the aviation sector, a key challenge in the global energy transition, and marks the bank’s first global transaction in this segment.