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SIBS Pilots a Multibanco Social Network Across Roughly Twenty Juntas de Freguesia in the Cash-Desert Interior — 1,200+ Cashless Parishes and a Seventeen-Kilometre Worst-Case Walk Frame the H1 2026 Rollout With Álvaro Santos Pereira

SIBS Pilots a Multibanco Social Network Across Roughly Twenty Juntas de Freguesia in the Cash-Desert Interior — 1,200+ Cashless Parishes and a Seventeen-Kilometre Worst-Case Walk Frame the H1 2026 Rollout With Álvaro Santos Pereira

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 Portugal Brief
Conselho de Ministros Drops the Seven-Working-Day Pre-Approval Rule for PPR and PRIIPs Advertising on Thursday 14 May — Six-Month Validity Survives the Reform as Insurers Move to a Communicate-First Notification Regime

Conselho de Ministros Drops the Seven-Working-Day Pre-Approval Rule for PPR and PRIIPs Advertising on Thursday 14 May — Six-Month Validity Survives the Reform as Insurers Move to a Communicate-First Notification Regime

Council of Ministers approved Thursday a diploma that strips the seven-working-day prior-approval gate for PPR and PRIIPs advertising. Insurers and banks move to a communicate-first notification regime; six-month message validity and supervisor ex-post powers survive.
The Portugal Brief