BBVA provides banking services with a focus on social responsibility and positive impact. It aims to have transparent, clear and responsible relationships with customers. Some of its key initiatives include financial education programs that have reached over 6.7 million people, microfinance programs that serve over 1.7 million customers, support for SMEs and entrepreneurs, addressing climate change through green financing and reducing its own environmental impact, and promoting a culture of social commitment among employees through volunteering and diversity programs.
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What’s happening today?
1. Financial industry is still suffering a reputational crisis
2. More regulation & soft regulation in customer protection, responsible practices & non-
financial disclosure
3. Competition landscape: digital disruption & new players in financial industry mean a
world of opportunities but also new material issues as privacy & security
4. Key improvement areas for banks according customer surveys: transparency & clarity
5. A growing demand of ESG performance (Environmental, Social & Governance) among
investors community
6. Employees value more highly the ethical behavior of the companies they work for
7. Society & Governments expect a higher commitment to development & climate
change management from companies
At BBVA, we have a different way of doing banking
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1 What do we mean by Responsible Banking?
2 How do we do Responsible Banking?
3 BBVA’s impact on society
Summary
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What do we mean
by Responsible
Banking at BBVA?
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A new competitive landscape: strategy focused
on transformation from and to the customer
Be the best bank for our customers Six strategic priorities
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Compliance
Risks
Responsible Business
With management systems…
… and an internal control model with three
lines of defense
Integrity Prudence Transparency
Role of Responsible Business: 2nd line of defense to ensure that
people are systematically placed at the decision-making processes
Return adjusted to Principles
1st line: business units & support
areas
Takes risks and owns them.
Includes a team that puts controls
into operation
2nd line: control
experts
Define policies,
challenge and advise
1st line
3rd line: internal
audit
Independent
monitoring
BBVA offers a different way of banking
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Governance and Accountability
• Approval and monitoring the CSR policy and responsible business
plan
• Report to plenary & to different committees
Board of
Directors
Operational
Model
• Interventions at Strategy & Planning Group Meeting
• Interventions at Local Management Meetings
• RB Co-dependency: Customer Solutions & Communications
Responsible business function reports directly to the Board of Directors
(*) Responsible business is embedded on the SDA (Single Development Agenda)
Strategic Plan • New Strategic Plan 2016-2018
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Reputational Risk Management Model
Mitigation actionsImpact vs Strength MatrixOutcomes
(Global & local)
Process
Governance & Accountability
Risk identification %
impact assessment
Assurance
Providers
identification
Strength
assessment &
mitigation
proposals
Implementation
& follow up
Local/ Global
review
(6 months)
Reputational Risk Working Group
(integrated in Corporate Assurance Framework)
Operational Risk, Responsible Business, Compliance & Comms
1
Reput. risk appetite + ICAAP
(integrated in Global Risk Management)
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TCR relationships with our customers
(transparent, clear & responsible)2
TCR relationships
1st clearest and most transparent bank in major markets
Our
aspiration
2018
Systematically ensure that BBVA’s interactions with customers are
transparent, clear and responsible to help them to make better
financial decisions
Transparent
Include all relevant
information for the
customer in balanced way
Clear
Make it easy to
understand (it has to do
with language and
structure)
Responsible
Take into account
customer interests in the
S/M/L term
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What are we doing?
TCR to transform the traditional bank
TCR to create the new bank
TCR advertising
code
TCR summary
pages &
commercial
protocols
TCR external
sales & call
centers
TCR contracts TCR complaints
management
TCR in SDA* customer
solutions
TCR in agile methodology TCR training & UX system
(*) SDA: Single Development Agenda
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ROI for TCR relationships (example)
Page 15RSC2 Model developed by McKinsey & Seres Foundation
Growth:
• Higher customer
recommendation (NPS)
• Higher non-customer
consideration
• More digital sales
Return on Capital:
• Reduce complaints
• More efficient commercial
dialog
• Higher employee pride of
belonging and motivation
Risk Management:
• Lower risk of fines
• Lower reputational risk
• Lower operational costs for unfair
commercial practices
• Anticipating regulation
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Financial Education & Capability Building
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Financial capabilities into
customer solutions
Financial education for society
More than 6.7 million
participants
€56 million invested
between 2008-2015
Advocacy & knowledge generation
Data verified by Deloitte
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Promoting banking solutions for Financial
Inclusion, specially in emerging markets
Data verified by Deloitte
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+1.7 million
customers
509 branches 7,910 employees
7 Countries
United Nations Award for
Best Social Business in 2012
BBVA Microfinance Foundation
+10 million customers in
Mexico, South America, Spain & Portugal
Low-cost digital channels and
easy-to-use products
FI Segment
Cuenta Express:
+3.5 million
active accounts
+46,000
banking
correspondants
Remmittances:
+10 million
transactions/year
United Nations UN grants
consultative status to BBVA
Microfinance Foundation
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Customer Privacy & Data Security
Data Protection Risk
Management
• Risks identification and assessment
• Consistent set of policies and
procedures
• Definition of a whole range of
mitigation measures/actions focused
on mitigating identified risks
• Definition and tracking of indicators
such as consumers
claims/complaints, security
incidents/breaches or independent
review processes, including a causal
analysis
• Reputational risk assessment
Operational and Technological
Risk Management
• New Engineering Risk & Corporate
Assurance unit
• Focus on adapting the levels of
information protection to the new
challenges arising from the Group's
digital strategy
• BBVA CERT: new center of BBVA
Group's cybersecurity and fraud
strategy.
• Cyber Trust Program: continuous
cybersecurity monitoring and
improvement plan
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Specific Technology & Cybersecurity Board Committee
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Climate strategy6
Integration of environmental factors into risk management*
• Global Eco-efficiency Plan
2013-2015 (figures per person):
-16% CO2 emissions
-43% paper consumption
-23% water consumption
-14% electricity consumption
33% people working in certified
buildings (ISO, LEED)
• New Global Eco-efficiency Plan
2016-2020
• Leading in renewable energy funding: 1,221
MW financed in 2015 (+17% than 2014)
• Leading Spanish institution in green bonds
underwriting
• Green lines financing: IFC, EIB, IADB…
• Support to main industry initiatives: EMF-ECB
Energy Efficiency Mortgage Initiative; EBRD-
UNEP FI Statement by Financial Institutions on
Energy Efficiency; European Financial Services
Roundtable
Providing climate finance solutions
(*) See next slide
Reduction of direct
impacts
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Integration of environmental & social
factors in risk management
New environmental & social risk framework
(to be approved in 2017)
• Reviewing all operations under the EP, regardless of the amount.
• Application beyond their mandatory scope.
• Applied in all countries.
• Exclusion lists of companies and countries updated quarterly.
• Risk portfolio rating of SMEs from an environmental perspective.
• Applied in Spain and Mexico.
• Corporate Retail Credit Risk Policy and Specific Rules on responsible granting of
loans and consumer credit.
• Analysis of every case by the Committee for the Protection of Mortgage Debtors.
• Providing individual solutions in accordance with each family's specific situation.
• Specific commitment and global due diligence in process perspective.
Equator Principles
• Continually improve the identification and management of environmental risks in
the Group’s operations.
Rules of Conduct in Defense
Social Housing Policy
Ecorating tool
Responsible lending
Human Rights
Environmental Policy
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Development of high social impact
customers solutions8
• +67,000 clients refinanced in light of payment difficulties
• +7,000 houses for social rent
• Over 1,500 families benefited by the integration program
Comprehensive Plan to help families in
difficult situations in Spain
5 year commitment of $11,000 million in loans,
investments and services pledge for low income communities
BBVA commitment in US on CRA
• Yo Soy Pyme (Mexico)
• Crédito flexible (Chile)
• Líneas ICO & Yo Soy Empleo Academy (Spain)
• Women entrepreneurs (Turkey)
SMEs integral support in all markets
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Promotion of a culture of social commitment
and shared values among employees
Data verified by Deloitte
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Global Corporate
Volunteering Plan
Territorios Solidarios Global Diversity Plan
Training
€34,3 million investment
49,4 hours of training per employee
93% employees trained
€7,4 million in grants
786 charitable projects approved and
+4 million people benefited
since its launch
20% women in the management team
Employee ratio 54% women / 46% men
Diversity Charter and UN Women’s
Empowerment Principles signatory
8,148 BBVA volunteers
devoted 135,000 hours
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Other Social programs: education,
entrepreneurship, science & culture10
Integral program to support social
enterprises in their growth
Program to identify, award & support
fintech start-ups
EntrepreneurshipEducation
Turkey
Mexico
Spain
Science & culture
• Support for advanced research in biomedicine, basic
science, environment and socio-economics
• Promotion of cultural activities: music and visual arts
• “BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards”
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1.7 million
people live in homes
financed
1,720,968
SMEs, micro-enterprises
and self-employed workers
supported
€23,552M
of finance granted to
SMEs, micro-enterprises
and self-employed workers
BBVA’s impact on society
€1,013.7M
of remuneration in
cash to shareholders
€5.047M
paid in salaries and
wages
Contribution to development - customer support
Creating wealth
€8,157M
contribution through
paid and accrued taxes
2015 Data verified by Deloitte
Contributions to society
€103.6 M
investment in social
programs
64,807
children and young
people with integration
grants
6.9 million
beneficiaries from
BBVA Microfinance
Foundation activity