The regulator's draft has been with the government since June and would need a law. Shares, bonds and ETFs from across the OECD would qualify; retirement plans and crypto would not.
Decreto-Lei n.o 171/2026 rewrites the Securities Code from 1 September. The free float needed for a listing drops from 25 percent to 10, multiple-vote shares get a disclosure regime, and payment for order flow is banned outright.
Portuguese listed companies that fall short of the 33.3% under-represented-gender threshold on their boards face administrative fines of up to €2.5 million under the revised text of Lei 62/2017 (Law 62/2017, of 1 August), the bill the government has...
German turnaround fund Mutares has appointed JPMorgan Chase to advise on the next chapter of its Portuguese engineering portfolio company Efacec, with the bank running parallel options work on a trade sale and a Euronext Lisbon initial public...
CMVM Chair Luís Laginha de Sousa's Conta Poupança-Investimento (CPI) proposal — sketched at the regulator's 35th-anniversary conference on 31 May 2026 — would graft a Portuguese retail-investor savings vehicle onto the European reference set led by the UK ISA, the French PEA and the Italian PIR.
The clock on Portugal's MiCA (Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation) transition window winds down to its final four weeks. From 1 July 2026, crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) that were active in Portugal under the prior Banco de Portugal (BdP)...
Banco Comercial Português (BCP, Millennium BCP) opened on Wednesday 4 June 2026 the share-buyback programme that the Conselho de Administração approved at its session of 27 May, marking the first time the bank deploys the recompra (buyback) leg of...
