Novo Banco

If State-owned  bank Caixa Geral de Depósitos buys Novobanco it could have systemic consequences for Portugal’s banking and financial sector warns the Governor of the Bank of Portugal, Mário [...]

Portugal’s Novobanco, in which the State has a minority but substantial shareholding, is encouraging a bid from State-owned bank Caixa Geral de Depósitos in the forthcoming sale or floatation. [...]

The US vulture fund Lone Star, which has a 75% share of the capital of Portuguese bank Novobanco, is looking to get a valuation of €5Bn for the financial institution. This figure is the starting [...]

The US asset management firm Lone Star that holds the controlling share in Portugal’s Novobanco is said to be “selecting advisors” to explore a possible sale or Initial Public Offer (IPO). [...]

The Spanish banking group Santander has shown interest in the possibility of growing through acquisitions in the Portuguese market. However, according to Alantra Partners, the bank does not have [...]

American fund Lone Star will reappoint the members of the General and Supervisory Board (CGS) of Novobanco, a body whose competences resemble those of a board of directors and which is led by [...]

The CEO of bank BPI, João Pedro Oliveira e Costa has criticised an increase on the annual contribution – basically a tax on the banks – that the sector has to pay to fund the [...]

The CEO of Novobanco, Mark Bourke, says he is optimistic that the bank will be able to soon reach an agreement with the Resolution Fund on the contingent capital mechanism. The fund has provided [...]

Negotiations between the Resolution Fund and the US asset management company Lone Star have stalled over the future of Novobanco. The end of September was forecast as the time when negotiations [...]

The international investment firm KKR is to resell a €700 million tranche from a portfolio of Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) known as ‘Project Nata’ that it purchased in 2018 from Novobanco for [...]