04/03/2015 (Agence Europe) - Green light to acquisition of Garanti by BBVA. On Wednesday 4 March, the European Commission cleared the acquisition of Garanti (Turkey) by BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, Spain). BBVA is a global banking group and Garanti provides banking services in Turkey and several European countries. Given the moderate combined market share of the parties on the markets in question, the Commission concluded that the transaction would raise no competition concerns....