Cryptocurrencies

Bison Bank, a Portuguese bank specialising in investment banking, depository, corporate advisory, and digital asset services launched the first Portuguese stablecoin onto the market: the ‘Bison [...]

Portuguese private bank Bison Bank doubled its profits in 2025 to €5 million its CEO, António Henriques announced at a press conference today. Henriques said that the bank had enjoyed its “best [...]

Cryptocurrency service providers are now required to comply with a mandatory reporting regime for information about users residing in Portugal, with the annual submission of reports to the tax [...]

Novo Banco has entered the cryptocurrency business, albeit not directly. Novo Banco’s trading platform has started to provide instruments that replicate the evolution of these products. [...]

Bison Bank is to integrate Bison Digital Assets into its main structure to become the first cryptobank in Portugal. The bank also intends to make technology and know-how available to clients to [...]

Since Lissele Pratt, co-founded Capitalixe – a fintech advisory providing payment solutions, banking services, and foreign exchange for high-risk and international businesses – in [...]

In 2023, income declared from the purchase and sale of cryptoassets by residents in Portugal stood at around €57 million according to newspaper Expresso today. The figures reflect the first year [...]

The MiCA crypto assets regulation, which came into force at the end of 2024, does bring more security for investors but could limit innovation in the financial system and push small Portuguese [...]

A lack of a homegrown legal regulatory framework in Portugal governing cryptoassets in line with European Regulations on the Crypto Assets Market (MiCA) is not only deterring new companies in [...]

The Bank of Portugal has announced today (Friday, January 3) that it does not have the required national legal regulations to receive and analyse applications from companies wanting to provide [...]