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Portugal’s development bank Banco de Fomento has banned venture capital companies from buying company shareholdings on the back of the Programa Consolidar (Consolidate Programme – one of [...]

The Portuguese PS party socialist MP and former health minister Marta Temido would be the chosen favourite nationwide as Lisbon’s next mayor according to a poll. If the electorate up and down the [...]

The privatisation process of Portugal’s State-run airline TAP will only begin in September after evaluations of the company by consultants EY and Banco Finantia are handed to the government in [...]

Over the last eight months the general public has been inundated with news about Artificial Intelligence with the development of ChatGPT; protagonists hailing its praises and detractors, [...]

The Portuguese parliament has approved a controversial law which allows private properties which have been left standing empty two years or more, and show no active utilities contract in terms of [...]

The CEO of Portuguese kitchen and household accessories chain Gato Preto (Living Spaces) Carolina Afonso has been distinguished by Forbes as one of the 50 most powerful Portuguese leaders in the [...]

Semapa, one of Portugal’s largest holdings that operates in areas such as paper production, cement, building materials and even venture capital, plans to acquire a portfolio of green and [...]

Portugal was one of the countries in the euro area which most increased the amount of IRS tax paid by top earners between 1995 and 2023. In a document released this month by the EC’s [...]

Portugal’s energy giant EDP plans to reduce its interests in Brazil  from is current 25% in EDP Brasil to 14% by 2026 according to the company’s new strategy plan to 2026. EDP’s focus will now be [...]

Claranet Portugal, the IT company which has the largest business turnover in its sector in Portugal, is preparing a round of possible acquisitions for 2024 and may include an IPO in Brazil. This [...]