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Derek White, an alumnus of BBVA and Barclays, will oversee digital innovation across all lines of business at the bank.

Shamir Karkal’s startup, Sila, is launching an API platform that gives developers a way to connect traditional bank systems to distributed ledgers like Ethereum.

After essentially failing its 2013 CRA exam, BBVA Compass embarked on an ambitious plan to achieve the highest possible CRA grade. Here’s how it succeeded.

Thanks to big tech companies, the business world is moving to third-party platforms, or online marketplaces where buyers pull sellers' products off digital shelves. A growing number of financial institutions — including BBVA, Citi and community banks like Eastern — say they can't afford to sit out the trend.

BBVA has picked Javier Rodriguez Soler, its head of strategy and mergers, to run its U.S. bank.

Several banks are seeing significant changes in leadership as the year comes to a close.

He will take over as CEO from Carlos Torres Vila, who becomes chairman at year-end. Still unknown: who will run the company's U.S. bank once Genç moves up.

Upturn, which is owned by a BBVA unit, is offering a free online tool consumers can use to detect and dispute inaccuracies in their credit report.

The Spanish bank’s investment arm, Propel, is jointly working with the venture capital firm Anthemis Group to find promising startups.

The online-only bank hopes new leadership can help it overcome its rocky past three years.

BBVA, BNP Paribas and MUFG recently used BBVA's blockchain to reach an agreement within 24 hours — instead of two weeks — to lend a Spanish power company $150 million.

Serverless computing has its proponents — Capital One and BBVA among them — but the service hasn’t yet proven it can fulfill general systems needs in banking.

The U.S. subsidiary of the Spanish company Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria benefited from healthy growth in consumer, credit card and C&I lending in the third quarter.

A recent study concluded there are first-mover benefits for banks that embrace open banking. But many executives see its risks instead.

What the bank is doing differently with its personal financial management tools could be instructive to the many institutions that haven’t gained much traction with similar offerings.

Customers are sprinkling symbols into their texts, and it's a challenge for banks to fine-tune systems to support the use of the cartoon code in communications.

Denizen is designed for expats and migrants to receive money and make payments without international transfer fees or currency exchanges.

BBVA has started testing a facial recognition payment application for employees to use at cafeterias and restaurants at the Ciudad BBVA office and business conference complex in Madrid.

Celent analysts Alenka Grealish and Stephen Greer explain how banks in Europe and the Netherlands have built business models around open banking.

The aim is not just to get consumers to act on a credit card offer or open a savings account, but to use the insight gleaned from data to build long-term relationships.