Finance

Portugal’s Finance minister said on Thursday that interest rate hikes by the ECB to curb inflation, were “quicker and higher” than had been expected for this year, and would also affect 2023. [...]

There are good reasons to be cheerful for Mário Centeno who runs Portugal’s central bank – Banco de Portugal as the country’s economic recovery looks robust. However, there’s no time to [...]

‘Achismo’ simply won’t work on climate risk assessment says BdP director Representatives of Portuguese banks, companies and academic institutions gave presentations at Sustainable Finance 2021 [...]

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 [...]