{"id":17903,"date":"2026-05-06T12:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/17903\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T12:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:18:13","slug":"bbva-appoints-jurgen-von-der-lehr-as-head-of-its-digital-bank-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/17903\/","title":{"rendered":"BBVA Appoints J\u00fcrgen von der Lehr as Head of Its Digital Bank in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With extensive experience in banking, strategy, digital transformation, and business development, J\u00fcrgen von der Lehr joins as Head of BBVA\u2019s Digital Bank in Germany, reporting directly to Murat Kalkan, Global Head of Digital Banks. His appointment marks a further step in BBVA\u2019s expansion strategy in Europe, aimed at accelerating profitable growth in large-scale markets through a fully digital model. Until now, the business has been successfully led by Luis Fiestas de Fuentes, who played a key role in establishing BBVA in the German market and laying the foundations for its next phase of growth. He will continue within BBVA&#8217;s Digital Bank in Germany as Head of Daily Banking &amp; Lending, reporting to J\u00fcrgen von der Lehr.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, von der Lehr served as Head of Strategy, Business Development, and Sustainability at ING Germany, where he also held the position of General Manager. During this time, he led the execution of corporate strategy, transformation programs, innovation initiatives, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbva.com\/en\/innovation\/what-fintech-is-and-how-startups-want-to-innovate-in-financial-services\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fintech <\/a>partnerships, and end-to-end digitalization projects. His experience combines strategic vision, customer insight, and strong execution capabilities in complex, fast-changing environments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJ\u00fcrgen von der Lehr\u2019s experience in the German market and his expertise in digital banking, transformation, and strategy will be key to the continued development of our offering in Germany with a long-term, profitable growth vision,\u201d said Murat Kalkan.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, von der Lehr led Daily Banking at ING, served as CEO of the Austrian business, and held the role of CTO in Luxembourg. Before ING, he spent a significant part of his career at Deutsche Bank, where he held senior roles in digital innovation and the investment and savings business. He was also a partner at Oliver Wyman and worked at firms such as A.T. Kearney, focusing on retail banking, private banking, technology, and growth in new markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With extensive experience in banking, strategy, digital transformation, and business development, J\u00fcrgen von der Lehr joins as Head&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[148],"class_list":{"0":"post-17903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bbva","8":"tag-bbva"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}