Customer Service Automation
BBVA wanted to improve customer service, give retail and business managers AI-based support, and raise employee productivity by embedding generative AI into digital channels and internal work processes.
Reported impact
BBVA reports better customer interaction through a more conversational virtual assistant, AI support for managers serving retail and business clients, and measurable employee time savings from ChatGPT Enterprise adoption.
BBVA describes a multi-front AI implementation that combines customer-facing generative AI with employee productivity tooling. For customers, the bank feeds Blue with customer financial context plus its catalog of products, services and banking transactions so the assistant can answer natural-language questions, return personalized financial information with empathy, and execute selected account and card actions in BBVA's digital channels. The same language-model pattern is being extended to retail and business managers as an AI support layer for faster query resolution and more tailored guidance. Internally, BBVA signed an agreement with OpenAI to deploy ChatGPT Enterprise across the group, with a Global AI Adoption area handling access and an AI Factory developing and scaling use cases. The source does not name a separate storage stack, but it clearly shows AI embedded in both employee workflows and customer service surfaces.
Customer financial data and BBVA's catalog of products, services and banking transactions are used by Blue to generate natural-language answers, personalized financial information, and selected account or card actions in the bank's digital channels. Separately, BBVA distributes ChatGPT Enterprise to employees through its Global AI Adoption area for internal use cases that the Data area's AI Factory helps develop and scale.
"Eighty percent claim to have saved at least two hours of work a week by using the tool"
"In 2024, the bank was one of the first European financial institutions to sign an agreement with OpenAI to hand out ChatGPT Enterprise licenses among its employees."
"Its new conversational capabilities allow customers to interact with Blue using natural language, receive personalized information about their finances delivered with empathy, and carry out certain account and card-related transactions."
"The new model has been launched with more than 150 queries and transactions and is able to answer upward of 3,000 questions posed by users."
"The use of ChatGPT Enterprise is already saving BBVA employees an average of two hours of work per week."
"Users who rely on these tools have succeeded in growing their bank balances by an average of 11% in Spain and up to 20% in Mexico"
"the evolution of its virtual assistant Blue to feature generative AI"
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