Banking services, regulations, and financial products in Portugal.
The Portuguese Autoridade Tributária's Unidade dos Grandes Contribuintes now monitors 4,012 entities on the 2026 list — 950 more names than the prior cycle, a 31% lift. Banks, insurers, investment funds and large economic groups dominate the additions.
The Supremo Tribunal Administrativo (STA) confirmed the extinction of the Fundação Berardo in a unanimous ruling dated Thursday 21 May 2026 , an outcome that the foundation's executive board contested all the way up the appellate ladder after the...
The Banco de Portugal formally stood up the Plataforma de Monitorização da Fraude Digital at a Lisbon conference on Monday 25 May 2026 , with Governor Álvaro Santos Pereira framing the launch as the first integrated national pipe to braid...
The Banco de Portugal 's monthly Endividamento do Setor Não Financeiro release, published on Monday 25 May 2026 , pushed the headline indebtedness number for Portugal's non-financial sector to €868.1 billion at the end of March 2026 , a €5.4 billion...
Banco de Portugal published a carta circular on Friday 22 May 2026 unifying the bank-complaint response window at 15 working days across every channel, closing the old 15-vs-20-day asymmetry between the complaints book and direct BdP filings.
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.
Banco de Portugal counts 1,243 corporates and 5,613 households inside the first three-month storm-cluster moratorium — 95.1% of household stock is mortgage credit and 92.8% of corporate stock sits with SMEs, with the measure now extended to April 2027.
