As investors rotate from AI-heavy US stocks to European markets, traditional banks, surprisingly, are stabilizing indices like Spain’s Ibex 35. Here are some thoughts on what the cooling AI hype means for banking, investing, and the future of automation.
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The newly created CaixaBank office will act as a central hub for all AI‑related activities across the group.
Getnet and UnionPay have joined forces to expand UnionPay card acceptance across Spain and Portugal, making payments smoother for both retailers and international visitors.
Under the agreement, PayPal will continue to manage all the customer-facing activities (underwriting of loans, servicing, customer relations) while KKR takes on the bulk of the receivables purchase.
The new Bueno Visa card is designed to make managing expenses and payments in Spain easier for international property owners — a segment that often faces challenges with traditional banking options and cross-border transactions.
A new wave of intelligent automation is coming to Spanish accounting desks led by Kabilio, the Barcelona-based startup that’s blending AI precision with practical workflow tools.
In an effort to bridge the gap between instant payment expectations and slow processing caused by inefficient cross-border payment rails, BBVA introduces instant payments for cross-border transfers coming from outside the eurozone.
As more and more kids get payment cards, Google Wallet updates its functionality to enable in-store cashless payments for those youngest generation representatives who received parental consent.
The Spanish company Imperia has raised more than 10 million euros (about $10.5 million) as part of a Series A financing round to fuel the international expansion of its supply chain management software.
The Spanish government intends to support the development of artificial intelligence, which is another example of the importance of AI as an advanced technology of modernity.
Revolut unveiled its 2025 product roadmap which includes a smart in-app AI companion, digital mortgages, branded ATMs and a suite of business-oriented products.
The Spanish venture capital company Kfund reported that it managed to raise $75 million in investment funds.
FreedomPay has reached an important milestone of getting integrated certification from Redsys, a Spanish payments processing provider, which enables the company to offer its commerce platform to Spanish merchants.
Cecabank, Abanca and Adhara Blockchain will experiment with central bank digital currency (CBDC), testing different use cases within the pilot of the wholesale CBDC by Spain’s central bank (Banco de España).
Several international platforms, such as Revolut, Bitpanda, Crypto.com and Vivid, have joined the list of registered crypto providers in Spain in 2023.
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