Company
Spanish multinational bank with retail, corporate and investment banking in Spain, Mexico, South America and Turkey, where it controls Garanti BBVA.
Iberdrola, BBVA and Santander ran a EUR150 million syndicated loan on DLT and call it the first live deal with its full lifecycle on-chain. The claimed savings are so far an argument, and a lender from outside the founding group would supply the first evidence.
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Italy's Garante fined BBVA €5,508,000 after a failed sync kept one customer's marketing opt-out from the CRM unit that sent promotions for seven months. The EDPB published a €16.7M Wind Tre fine three days later.
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Ripple is pitching Turkey's nearly $200 billion crypto market with Garanti BBVA custody and its RLUSD dollar token on local exchanges. The bank's vault and the token sit in separate channels, so a Turkish customer hedging the lira on-chain still goes through an exchange.
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D-Wave opened a beta of its gate-model simulator, letting customers write and test error-aware programs against its dual-rail qubit design. Teams can now check algorithms against that design's errors while fault-tolerant hardware stays on D-Wave's roadmap.
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Twenty-one institutions have set a first-half-2027 date for a jointly issued dollar token. The float arithmetic points to a different motive: defending settlement flows, not earning on reserves.
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