Raize, a Portuguese company with a platform that brings together investors and companies in order to help finance new company projects for SMEs, has seen a return to pre-pandemic levels of [...]

PwC’s annual report Global Funds Distribution which studies the distribution off cross-border funds – meaning the sale of funds in more than one country – shows that the [...]

Portuguese banker António Horta-Osorio, who turned the fortunes of Lloyds Bank around from 2011, starts work at Credit Suisse today. One of Europe’s longest-serving bank CEOs, he admitted in an [...]

The sale of NPL portfolios was down by 87.5% to €1Bn in 2020 according to the latest study from Prime Yield ‘Keep an Eye on the NPL& REO Markets’. The activity represents a notable fall [...]

Financial entities based in the United Kingdom have been investing considerably in Portuguese syndicated pubic debt since the UK referendum in June 2016. Syndicated debt is issued by the [...]

TDR Capital has made a takeover bid for Arrow Global – which in Portugal has Whitestar and Norfin, for €616 million. TDR, a private equity manager, has launched a takeover for 100% of Arrow [...]

Portugal’s finance minister put a slight gloss on an otherwise dark landscape as the National Statistics Institute confirmed Portugal’s debt levels had reached 135% of GDP and GDP had fallen by [...]

The governor of the Bank of Portugal has forecast that the Portuguese economy will not go into recession in the first quarter of this year, despite the new lockdown. He said that the economy [...]

Portugal’s former finance minister, Vítor Gaspar, has warned that while everything should be done to save businesses from the pandemic crisis, governments should keep the receipts. Gaspar, who [...]

Portugal’s public finances were €4.2Bn worse off from March to November according to calculations by the Parliamentary Budget Support Unit UTAO. The Covid-19 pandemic has required the State to [...]