Whois & Analysis for bbva.com

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A.

(BBVA) (is a multinational Spanish banking group.

It was formed from a merger of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya and Argentaria in 1999, and is the second largest bank in Spain.

The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.

In 2007, the firm started an initiative to digitally transform the bank.

Following implementation, it saw a 19% year-on-year increase in new customers.

As of 2015, the total number of these clients stood at 14.8 million.

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