José Azevedo Pereira took office as the new chief executive of Banco Montepio on Friday 22 May 2026, succeeding Pedro Leitão after a six-year run that returned the institution to dividend distribution — and with the mutualista shareholder pressing for higher payouts from the next cycle onwards.
SIBS is preparing a Multibanco Social pilot that installs cash machines inside roughly twenty juntas de freguesia in the cash-desert interior — the regions where 1,200+ parishes hold no physical cash-out point and where the worst-case walk stretches to seventeen kilometres.
The Banco de Portugal has approved only five gestores de créditos in the five months since the Lei 70/2024 regime governing the secondary non-performing-loan (NPL) market entered into force on 10 December 2025. ECO carried the count on Wednesday:...
The Banco de Portugal dropped the maximum taxa de esforço applicable to new housing loans from 50% to 45% of net household income, with the decision surfacing publicly on the morning of Wednesday 20 May 2026 . The five-point cut to the...
The Banco de Portugal registered 2,577 reclamações tied to fraud-affected payment operations across 2025, a 45% year-on-year increase that the supervisor flagged on Sunday 17 May 2026 as one of the principal conduct-risk vectors facing Portuguese...
Two prints from the same statistical office, one day apart, frame an awkward question for the Banco de Portugal. On Thursday 14 May the Q1 2026 Quarterly Labour Force Survey recorded 38,700 net job losses in three months and pushed unemployment to...
AICCOPN's March 2026 cement-consumption reading rebounds 26% year-on-year, closing Q1 at +2.2% after a volatile January-February. Construction credit stock at €7.2 billion (+11.2%), public tenders down 26% to €1.98 billion, municipal licensing -18.7%.
