News Topic: BBVA

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 to build long-term relationships — without coming across as manipulators. ... Read full article

EU banks will soon start sharing customer account data with all third parties their customers approve. Very few U.S. banks have latched on to this concept. Here’s why. ... Read full article

Covault has begun offering a digital identification and virtual safe deposit box service to banks and others. Similar efforts have failed before, but its backers say mobile apps and the cloud have made the service more practical. ... Read full article

Brian Behlendorf, leader of the Linux Foundation's effort to establish standards for blockchain, likens the invention of cryptocurrencies to the moon launch and says banks, open-source developers and others are working to make the underlying ... Read full article

Execs from Bank of America, Wells Fargo, BBVA, Ally Bank and others outlined their AI strategies, progress to date and lessons learned at BankAI this week. ... Read full article

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, exhorted developers to think about unintended consequences, saying he felt guilty over the digital divide and the proliferation of fake news. ... Read full article

BBVA has launched a new mobile app that is designed to help people in the U.S. send money to friends and family in Mexico — more quickly and cheaper than traditional remittance methods. ... Read full article

Some banks are looking at how to translate the complicated and document-heavy mortgage lending process into the digital world of voice interactive personal assistants. ... Read full article

The Spanish bank is opening its APIs to outside developers as Bank of America tests a new data-sharing model with aggregators. ... Read full article

Using a program built by Ripple, BBVA has transferred about 50 euro-denominated payments to Mexico from Spain in seconds. Such transactions normally take up to four days to clear, the bank said. ... Read full article

As blockchain projects have proliferated, the need for them to be compatible with one another has become paramount. ... Read full article

The Spanish bank said it will continue to be Atom’s main strategic investor and keep two seats on its board. ... Read full article

The services that Kasisto, Personetics, North Side and Teller offer banks to automate interactions vary in their levels of personality and the workload they can handle. ... Read full article