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Buying a Used Car in Portugal in 2026 — A Practical Guide to the Registo Automóvel Transfer, the €55 IRN Tariff, the IUC Reassignment, the Garage-Side IPO Check and the Seller-Buyer Document Chain at the Conservatória do Registo Automóvel
Buying a used car in Portugal runs through the Registo Automóvel transfer at the IRN, the €55 administrative tariff, the IUC reassignment to the new owner and the IPO-inspection check. A 2026 practical guide to the seller-buyer document cha…
MB Way and Multibanco in Portugal in 2026 — A Practical Guide to the SIBS-Owned Card Rails, the 11,000-ATM Network, the Mobile-Wallet App, the MB Spot Cash-In/Cash-Out Service and the Mechanics Outside Visa-Mastercard
Multibanco is the SIBS-operated domestic card network behind Portugal's 11,000-plus ATMs, the Entidade-Referência-Montante bill rail and the MB Way mobile wallet. A 2026 practical guide to onboarding, P2P limits, MB Spot and what to watch a…
📋 In This Edition
- Outlook: Moody's Portugal Sovereign Review Friday 23 May, Altri Q1 2026 Friday 22 May, Mota-Engil €110M Sustainability-Linked Bond Lists Friday 22 May, Galp €0.33 Dividend Pays Today, Vista Alegre Delisting AGM Thursday 29 May, Martifer OPA Closes Wednesday 3 June
Outlook: Moody's Portugal Sovereign Review Friday 23 May, Altri Q1 2026 Friday 22 May, Mota-Engil €110M Sustainability-Linked Bond Lists Friday 22 May, Galp €0.33 Dividend Pays Today, Vista Alegre Delisting AGM Thursday 29 May, Martifer OPA Closes Wednesday 3 June
Outlook: Friday 23 May 2026 brings the Moody's Portugal sovereign-rating review with the A3 read broadly expected to hold and the consensus skewed toward an outlook upgrade from stable to positive — the move would align Moody's with DBRS (positive trend since Q4 2025), S&P and Fitch, sit two notches below the A1 high-grade gate, and tighten the Bund-spread frame heading into June ECB. Friday 22 May walks Altri Q1 2026 against the Hawkins Wright BHKP-pulp-price index that ran roughly 11% lower across the quarter, with the conference call following the print and the €0.25 per share ordinary-dividend ex-day on Tuesday 26 May paid 28 May. Friday 22 May also brings the Mota-Engil €110 million sustainability-linked-bond settlement and Euronext Lisbon retail-bond listing at the 4.60% coupon and 2031 maturity — the company's first retail-bond tape since the Q1 record €35 million result. Today walks the Galp Energia €0.33 per share final-dividend payment off Wednesday's record date. Thursday 29 May books the Vista Alegre Atlantis delisting AGM through the €1.07 per share cash-out clock against the 5.24% free float — Visabeira's 84.76% block printing the squeeze-out trigger under Article 196 of the Código dos Valores Mobiliários — running in parallel with the live Visabeira Indústria mandatory tender offer for Martifer at €2.057 per share that closes on Wednesday 3 June after Optimize Investment Partners' 4% 'too-low' refusal lifted the bar for the 90% Article-194 squeeze-out trigger. The CP €504 million high-speed-train tender carries the public-investment beta into the 2 July bid-submission window with Q1 2027 signature, 2031 first delivery and 2032 service launch on the Porto-Lisboa corridor. The macroprudential overlay continues to anchor the listed-banking beta on the back of Banco de Portugal's 45% DSTI cut formalised Wednesday morning, with BCP's second-day bid likely fading into Friday's Moody's read.
