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Banco de Portugal Floats a National Black-List of Bank Accounts Used in Payment Fraud Inside the 2030 Retail-Payments Strategy — 28 July Consultation Window and a Parallel Digital-Fraud Monitoring Platform Frame the Security Pillar

Banco de Portugal Floats a National Black-List of Bank Accounts Used in Payment Fraud Inside the 2030 Retail-Payments Strategy — 28 July Consultation Window and a Parallel Digital-Fraud Monitoring Platform Frame the Security Pillar

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...
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Council of Ministers Reworks the IVA Liquidation Regime on Combustíveis to Choke Out Fuel-Sector Fraud — Leitão Amaro Backs the CIVA Adjustment as the Same 11 June Vote Wraps an SME Capital-Markets Simplification Package

Council of Ministers Reworks the IVA Liquidation Regime on Combustíveis to Choke Out Fuel-Sector Fraud — Leitão Amaro Backs the CIVA Adjustment as the Same 11 June Vote Wraps an SME Capital-Markets Simplification Package

The Council of Ministers approved a CIVA rework on 11 June 2026 that shifts the VAT liquidation moment on combustíveis upstream to the entrepôt aduaneiro entry gateway — closing the missing-trader gap, alongside a paired SME capital-markets simplification package.
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Banco de Portugal Stands Up the Plataforma de Monitorização da Fraude Digital With SIBS, Telecoms and the PJ on Monday 25 May — €6.5 Million of Losses Blocked Since the May 2024 IBAN-Beneficiary Tool as 2025 Complaints Lift 45%

Banco de Portugal Stands Up the Plataforma de Monitorização da Fraude Digital With SIBS, Telecoms and the PJ on Monday 25 May — €6.5 Million of Losses Blocked Since the May 2024 IBAN-Beneficiary Tool as 2025 Complaints Lift 45%

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...
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