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 [...]

Flexdeal, the first and only Real Estate Investment Company for Economic Development (SIMFE) in Portugal, now holds 950,000 shares in the payments company Raize, corresponding to 19% of the [...]

Despite record debt levels among the Portuguese public and companies, investments in government bonds rose again in October by €88 million. It was the ninth month on-the-trot that bond [...]

The Portugal Fintech Report 2020 indicates that despite the pandemic Fintechs in Portugal are continuing to attract a growing number of investors and are consolidating sales. Fintechs, technology [...]