Victor is a great friend of mine. He lived in The Netherlands for more than 10 years. He travelled the world when he was young. Unlike me and lucky for him, he had nothing to do with banking, he was in fashion and retailing business (which already...
2015 has been a year of BBVA Wallet globally. Which other bank has two million downloads in five countries? We have spent two years and made several upgrades to our Spanish Wallet to reach one million. Then during the summer of this year we have...
The other day I was showing my wife the great e-commerce platform we built at BBVA for small and medium-size merchants in Spain called Nimble. She looked at it and simply said “I’ve done it 15 years ago”. In fact she was the founder CEO of an e...
My dad was a wise man. He had many quotes that I still use today. One of such wisdom was this: “Time is the only democratic resource given to mankind.” He meant that all of us, however rich or poor, young or old, man or woman, a CEO or a shepherd...
I tried to argue for a better world taking on issues such as democracy, education, climate and capitalism on one my posts around two years ago. My views have not changed and I really believe we as humans are wasting precious time to make this planet...
A neden bulamadınız? Keşke seçenekler arasında zorlansaydık değil mi? Ama yok ne yazık ki. Yeni heyecan verici ürün yok. Peki ne oldu inovasyon merkezi Türkiye’ye birdenbire??? “E regülasyon oldu” dersek yanlış olmaz herhalde ve de birdenbire değil...
Well, it is so far, there is not even a direct flight yet. In spite of the fact that Turkish Airlines brags about flying more countries than any other airline and flies all the way down to Buenos Aires, there is no direct flight between a country of...
Biz yıllardır nakit kötüdür, kirlidir, kayıt altına alınamaz, vergi geliri yaratmaz diye anlatmaya çalıştık. Nakdi (henüz) ortadan kaldıramadık ama ülkemizdeki kişisel harcamaların yarıya yakını banka (debit) ve kredi kartları ile yapılır hale geldi...
Was September 9, 2014 a good day for payment systems? Just as everybody was saying digital wallets are dead in the US, Apple comes with this announcement of its own payment solution. If you haven’t watched the keynote you can watch it here. But...
Bill Clinton won his first elections by saying it is the economy stupid. The message was clear: If you are better off financially, all falls in place and if not, the whole country will suffer. So I am using this metaphor to emphasize the importance...
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