Trade publication ‘Retail Banker International’, part of the British platform Verdict, has named BBVA as the world's ‘Best Open Banking’ services provider, particularly thanks to BBVA API_Market, a business unit it describes as an "industry pioneer". We took the award ahead of HSBC and Lloyds, the other two shortlisted banks.

Trade publication ‘Retail Banker International’, part of the British platform Verdict, has named BBVA as the world's ‘Best Open Banking’ services provider, particularly thanks to BBVA API_Market, a business unit it describes as an "industry pioneer". We took the award ahead of HSBC and Lloyds, the other two shortlisted banks.

There are more and more startups appearing that offer tools and financial platforms in which developers have a wide gamut of possibilities for creating innovative services and new business models. 

Openness - the open APIs trend- will be one of the most significant in the Fintech industry in the upcoming months. This has been stated by the Institute of Digital Economics of the ESIC in a recent report that also includes the Web 4.0, ‘Social to Everything Media’, blockchain technology, authentication and B2C interfaces as its main topics.

With this first post we would like to welcome you to a new space: the BBVA API_Market Blog. This is a place to share with all readers the progress made, news, analysis and latest features about our APIs and what is happening regarding them.

Learn how financial institutions are betting on the Big Data and Artificial Intelligence through APIs that help banks to define products, segmenting customers and detect possible fraud. Throughout this ebook we offer a review of the APIs bank data aggregation.

Marc Santandreu is an entrepreneur with extensive experience in the publishing world. His taste for reading and technology made him start the startup "Tekstum" in mid-2014. In this interview he tells us about his experience as an entrepreneur and the future plans for Tekstum.

Developing is a crucial phase in the creation of a product, but having a marketing plan and skillfully carrying it out is the key to a successful application. You also need to know your users and reduce development faults to a minimum. Behind each app lies a vast work involving the conceptualization, design, development and testing of the software. 

Jaime Sánchez-Laulhé created Geoblink two years ago. This Madrid-based company, whose main mission is to tell us where to open our store, has now been selected by Bloomberg as one of the 50 most promising start-ups in the world. 

Alejandro Guirao, developer at intelygenz, gives insight into Chaos Monkey, a tool that causes random system failures for resilience testing which is used by Netflix and is winning over other major companies.