Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A.(BBVA), pursuant to the provisions of the Spanish Securities Market Act, hereby proceeds by means of the present document to notify the following:

RELEVANT INFORMATION

The results of the Spanish banking sector stress test made by the independent consulting firm Oliver Wyman have been disclosed today by the Bank of Spain. The test results pertaining to the BBVA group published by the Bank of Spain are attached hereto.

Under the stress test, the capital ratio (common equity tier 1) of the group in the worst case scenario would be 9,6%.

The results show that even in the worst case scenario of the test, BBVA´s capital ratio would remain over the minimum required.

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Madrid, September 28, 2012