The Spanish bank Bankinter posted profits of €1.1Bn in the first half of 2021, including a €896 million windfall for selling off Línea Directa’ while Portuguese agencies made a €26 million [...]

Portugal’s Minister of Finance, João Leão said this week that Portugal was prepared for its “biggest period of growth this century”. Speaking on Tuesday, João Leão said that Portugal’s economy [...]

It’s on the lips of everyone you meet from economists and developers to entrepreneurs and manufacturers. Europe and the US stand on the threshold of a new Roaring 20s, with unprecedented growth [...]

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 [...]