Spain · Payments & e-money

Bbva Merchant Solutions E.p., S.l.

The register name differs from the legal name in GLEIF. This can follow a rename. Treat the LEI match as indicative.

BBVA Merchant Solutions E.P., S.L. is a Spanish private limited company based in Madrid. It appears on the EBA payment-institution register under number 6945, with payment services and card acquiring listed as its activities. Its Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) record names Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. (BBVA) as its direct and ultimate parent. The company began as BBVA Data & Analytics SL, which BBVA said in 2021 would become BBVA AI Factory SL, and it later traded as Hans Factory SL before its conversion into a payment institution.

Licences and registrations

Held by Bbva Merchant Solutions E.p., S.l. (LEI 95980020140005920184). 1 entry on 1 of the 22 tracked registers, retrieved 25 September 2026.

RegisterLicenceNumberJurisdictionStatusRegisteredEndsActivitiesRegister entry
EBA PSD2 RegisterBank of Spain Payment institutionPayment InstitutionGLEIF legal name: BBVA MERCHANT SOLUTIONS, E.P SL 6945 Spain Active 2025-10-16 —
  • Payment services
  • Card acquiring
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Swift network

Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory

Holds no BIC in Swift’s directory.

Its LEI is not mapped to a BIC in the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI relationship file.

Overview

Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources

Customers

Not published

Employees

Not published

Ownership

Group subsidiary

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A.

Firm type

Merchant acquiring and processing

Standing · No public presence found
The firm has been entered on the EBA payment-institution register since 16 October 2025. No website, product terms or public customer offer in its own name were found. It was previously named Hans Factory SL and, before that, BBVA AI Factory SL and BBVA Data & Analytics SL, and it took its current name in early 2026.
Ownership
The firm's LEI record reports Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. as its direct and ultimate accounting parent.
Head office
Calle Federico Mompou 5, Edificio 2, Planta 1, 28050 Madrid, Spain
Incorporated
2014
Former names
HANS FACTORY SL · BBVA AI FACTORY SL · BBVA DATA & ANALYTICS SL
Sources · 5 pages consulted
  1. bbva.com/en/opinion/a-further-step-in-the-consolidation-of-bbva-ai-factory/
  2. bbvaaifactory.com/from-bbva-data-analytics-to-bbva-ai-factory/
  3. bbvaaifactory.com/legal-notice/
  4. bbvaaifactory.com/
  5. euclid.eba.europa.eu/register/pir/search

Authorisation

Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources

Operates under
Its own licences

The EBA PSD2 register lists the firm as a payment institution authorised in Spain, where the Banco de España is the competent authority. Its registered activities are payment services and card acquiring.

AuthorityLicence or registrationNumberHeldStatusSource
Banco de España (EBA PSD2 register) Spain Payment institution 6945 In its own name Active —

Licences and registrations the research found, at home and abroad, as the firm and its regulators publish them. The Licences and registrations card shows the entries on the registers the directory tracks.

Products and markets

Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources

  • Merchant acquiring

The EBA register lists payment services and card acquiring as its authorised activities, but the firm publishes no product offer of its own.

The firm is authorised in Spain, and no passporting or customer offer outside Spain was found.

Serves customers in
Spain

Recent events

Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources

The research found no fines, investigations, security incidents, licence changes or corporate events from the last three years.

Compliance-relevant events of the last three years, newest first: fines and enforcement, investigations, security incidents, licence changes, funding rounds, acquisitions and leadership changes. Each links to its source.

Identifiers

Licence no. · EBA-PSD2
6945
BIC
Holds no BIC in Swift’s directory
How the LEI was matched
Matched by Elucidate to GLEIF on name, country and address
GLEIF legal name
BBVA MERCHANT SOLUTIONS, E.P SL
Elucidate firm ID
d5dd199810dc

Profile

Type
Payments & e-moneyPayment institutions, e-money and stored-value issuers, and account-information providers. Licensed under payment-services law (e.g. PSD2 in the EU and UK, the Payment Services Act in Singapore). Taken from the licences on the tracked registers.
Regulation
Prudential licenceAuthorised with capital, safeguarding and conduct requirements, e.g. an authorised payment or e-money institution in the EU or UK, a major payment institution in Singapore, or a MiCA crypto-asset service provider.
Main licence class
Payment Institution
Activities
  • Payment services
  • Card acquiring
Licensed in
Spain · Europe & Central Asia
First registered
2025-10-16

Types come from Swift’s BIC classification, the licences on the 22 tracked registers, and the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks outside the euro area appear as financial institutions, because their supervisors’ registers are not tracked yet.

Ownership and group

GLEIF relationship records

The Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Sociedad Anonima group has 38 institutions in the directory, in 28 countries: 37 hold a BIC and 1 does not.

Including Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria S.A, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. New York, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria S.A., Sucursal Em Portugal, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA.

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Group membership follows the accounting-consolidation relationships reported to GLEIF. It does not show ownership shares or control.

Addresses

Address on the register
CALLE FEDERICO MOMPOU 5 EDIFICIO 2, PLANTA 1, MADRID, 28050
Country
Spain

ISO 20022 identification

As an agent in a Swift cross-border payment message (CBPR+)

This institution holds no BIC. A CBPR+ message identifies it by name and postal address, and may add its LEI or a clearing code.

Identified by
Name and postal address, with its LEI
Postal address
Hybrid: town, postcode and country in their own elements, the rest in two address lines
<FinInstnId>
  <LEI>95980020140005920184</LEI>
  <Nm>BBVA MERCHANT SOLUTIONS E.P., S.L.</Nm>
  <PstlAdr>
    <PstCd>28050</PstCd>
    <TwnNm>MADRID</TwnNm>
    <Ctry>ES</Ctry>
    <AdrLine>CALLE FEDERICO MOMPOU 5 EDIFICIO 2</AdrLine>
    <AdrLine>PLANTA 1</AdrLine>
  </PstlAdr>
</FinInstnId>

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Sources & method

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