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A Portuguese banker who presided over the rise and fall of private bank Banco Privado Português between 1996 and 2010 has been found dead in a prison cell in South Africa. João Rendeiro was being [...]

Maersk has opened a new technology hub in Porto eight months after purchasing the Portuguese startup HUUB. The Danish logistics company’s hub opened with 50 staff, a number which will be trebled [...]

Portugal’s minister of Foreign Affairs, João Cravinho said that Portugal doesn’t need Russian gas and could “turn off the tap” on its gas “tomorrow”. Speaking at the end of the informal meeting [...]

Further evidence that Russian oligarchs knew of Vladimir Putin’s intentions to invade Ukraine before the military action occurred on 24 February emerged over the weekend. Billionaire Roman [...]

Lisbon’s annual property fair SIL 2022 opened its door on Thursday at the city’s FIL – Lisbon Congress and Exhibition Centre. Once again it is running parallel with Tektónica, the Lisbon [...]

A Portuguese technology company has launched a digital platform for companies to create and manage a channel of whistleblowers. Closer has launched the channel so that organisations with over 50 [...]

Despite increases in the costs of diesel and petrol, fuel sales at the pumps have hit a new record. In March alone consumers consumed €504,000 tonnes of fuel as the price per litre has already [...]

Portugal has attracted €2.2Bn of inward overseas investment since the start of the year, according to the Minister of the Economy, António Costa Silva. The man who in 2020 was appointed [...]

Portugal’s State-owned bank Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD) has posted a €146 million profit for the first quarter of 2022. It represents an 80% increase like-for-like on 2021 when the bank’s [...]

The British and Irish are back on the Algarve’s beaches as hotel occupancy rates for April increased 60.4% like-for-like on 2021. However, despite more optimistic figures which showed that UK and [...]