“What we are increasingly seeing is that the more digitally advanced a business is, the better it performs, both financially, but also in terms of key metrics like staff engagement, customer acquisition and reduced attrition,” said Ricardo Laiseca, BBVA’s head of global finance. “We see the development of these digital loan facilities as a way to tangibly support and encourage other businesses to evolve as we have done,” Mr Laiseca said. BBVA has long professed the goal of becoming not just a digital bank but a “digital company”.

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