BBVA launches ninth edition of fintech challenge

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), a multi-national Spanish banking group, announced that it has launched the ninth edition of its Open Talent fintech competition that offers a chance to work with a world-leading digital business.

“Just as BBVA’s new tagline of Creating Opportunities promises, the BBVA Open Talent program has strengthened from one competition to five this year, giving dozens of high-growth businesses the opportunity to grow, in what is probably the world’s biggest fintech challenge,” the announcement said.

BBVA Open Talent is building a kind of ‘fintech games’ for this ninth edition in order to look for most complete and innovative winners across various areas of expertise, which would help BBVA to achieve the goal of transforming the world of banking.

Apart from this, this year BBVA will be hosting three focused world-wide competitions, two specialist challenges for specific groups of people, more than a dozen country-specific opportunities, and an all-encompassing, catch-all global trends competition that will find the absolute best fintech idea across the globe.

Starting from 15 March 2017, the fintech startups will have until July 17 to register their initiative and every idea will be automatically entered into the catch-all competition. The selected fintech startups will have a chance to compete for the overall fintech prize during the BBVA Open Talent Global Summit in October.