During 2019, Invest in Bogota (IIB), the city of Bogotá's investment promotion agency, supported 48 greenfield Foreign Direct Investment projects, its highest number for a calendar year since its institution in 2006.

"There is a clear demand on the part of consumers for personal loans," said Shayan Khwaja of BBVA Compass.

"PayPal customers will be able to pay for App Store, Apple Music, iTunes and iBooks purchases across iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices using their PayPal account," said the company.

“It is a consortium network, collaborative and useful for all," said Álex Puig, head of Spain's new multi-sector tech platform Red Lyra.

BBVA is making AWS its "preferred" cloud infrastructure provider to help migrate its workflows to the provider's system.