The Bank of Portugal has issued a warning about entities that do not have authorisation to operate in the virtual assets market in Portugal. It specifically refers to BTC Evex 360, BTC ifex 360, [...]
Portugal’s seven largest banks must submit a report to the European banking supervisor containing detailed data that will enable Brussels to evaluate the risk of high interest rates on their [...]
Banks in Portugal have closed 1,077 branches up and down the country over the past five years – the majority in Lisbon, Porto, Braga and Aveiro. According to a study released by the Bank of [...]
The Bank of Portugal has issued a new reporting regulation for the top brass of financial institutions that will have to report fat cat salaries. The supervisor in Portugal is following the lead [...]
The Governor of the Bank of Portugal Mário Centeno believes that inflation should fall to below 3% by the end of the year. Centeno gave his opinion to Bloomberg after taking part in an economics [...]
Portugal’s public debt, as accepted Brussels, remained unchanged at €280Bn in May according to data released by the Bank of Portugal today. (Mon July 3, 2023) It is the first time that Portugal’s [...]
The Bank of Portugal is more optimistic than the government over the budget deficit for 2023, predicting an overspend of 0.1% and a surplus of 0.2% next year. According to its monthly bulletin [...]
The Bank of Portugal has revised Portugal’s growth upwards by 0.9% to 2.7% – three times higher than the EU average. Growth had been forecast at 1.8% for 2023 in March, The increase in [...]
Portugal achieved an overseas trade surplus of nearly €1Bn for the first quarter of 2023. It compared extremely favourably to the commercial trade deficit of €1.5Bn like-for-like in 2022 [...]
Portugal’s gold reserves have soared to a new record worth of almost €21Bn on the back of gains by the US dollar. This is despite the fact that bullion prices have fallen on the International [...]