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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.
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Açores Government Opens the SATA Internacional / Azores Airlines Sale With a 75% Minimum-Stake Floor — Caderno de Encargos Locks In 30-Month No-Layoff Cover, São Miguel-Terceira-Lisboa-Porto Routing and a Three-Year AOC

Açores Government Opens the SATA Internacional / Azores Airlines Sale With a 75% Minimum-Stake Floor — Caderno de Encargos Locks In 30-Month No-Layoff Cover, São Miguel-Terceira-Lisboa-Porto Routing and a Three-Year AOC

The Açores regional government's caderno de encargos for the SATA Internacional / Azores Airlines reprivatisation opens the private-negotiation phase with a 75% minimum-stake floor, a 30-month bar on collective dismissals, a three-year AOC and an HQ-in-Açores requirement.
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Banco de Portugal Sets Up a National Payment-Resilience Plan With Energy, Telecoms and Retail After the 28 April 2025 Apagão — Relatório dos Sistemas de Pagamentos 2025 Books a 36% Terminal Drop and 80% Restaurant Value Shock on the Day

Banco de Portugal Sets Up a National Payment-Resilience Plan With Energy, Telecoms and Retail After the 28 April 2025 Apagão — Relatório dos Sistemas de Pagamentos 2025 Books a 36% Terminal Drop and 80% Restaurant Value Shock on the Day

BdP's 2025 Relatório dos Sistemas de Pagamentos sets up a National Payment-Resilience Plan with energy, telecoms and retail after the 28 April 2025 apagão. Day-of-blackout tape: -36% POS volume and value, restaurants -60%/-80%, ATM withdrawals -34% in volume and -24% in value.
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Nova SBE's Balanço Social 2025 Places Açores Second on the National Poverty Map at 17.3% — 33.8 Gini, 17.4% Material Deprivation and the Sharpest Reliance on Social Transfers Frame the Regional Gap

Nova SBE's Balanço Social 2025 Places Açores Second on the National Poverty Map at 17.3% — 33.8 Gini, 17.4% Material Deprivation and the Sharpest Reliance on Social Transfers Frame the Regional Gap

Nova SBE's Portugal, Balanço Social 2025 places Açores at 17.3% poverty risk and 17.4% material deprivation — the highest deprivation reading and the sharpest 33.8 Gini in the country. Reframes Wednesday's national 15.4% figure as a continental average masking the regional gap.
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