Banking services, regulations, and financial products in Portugal.
Banco Comercial Português closed Tuesday at €1.002 on the Bolsa de Lisboa — up 1.44% in a fifth consecutive gain — clearing the €1 line for the first time since 27 July 2015 and pulling Miguel Maya's lender out of penny-stock status at a €14 billion market cap.
The Banco de Portugal (Bank of Portugal — BdP) has opened a public consultation on a new Estratégia Nacional para os Pagamentos (National Payments Strategy) running through 2030, and the document floats one headline tool that will reshape how the...
How to open a Portuguese bank account while you still live abroad: the NIF, the documents banks ask for, opening remotely, costs, and tax reporting.
Euronext Lisbon's Capital Markets Day opens Monday with Sarmento anchoring the keynote — Novobanco IPO window, BCP €407.46 million buyback cycle and CGD state-listing chatter stack into the tightest Portuguese banking consolidation map since the 2014 BES resolution.
ECB ends its 33-month pause with a 25bp lift to a 2.25% deposit facility, framed by Lagarde as a 'warning signal' against re-accelerating inflation, while the ESM's same-day annual report flags Portuguese energy dependence, PRR slippage and storm damage as 2026 risk triggers.
Tuesday's fixing lifts Portugal's three-month Euribor 2.2 basis points to 2.373% — the highest since March 2025 — with the 6-month at 2.606% and 12-month at 2.866%, all advancing on the same session that brings the European Central Bank's June policy meeting into view.
Portuguese households opened a record €13.398 billion of new term deposits in April. The average rate ticked up 2 basis points to 1.44% in a third straight monthly climb, but still pays 47 bp under the 1.91% eurozone average, BdP data show.
