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The Banco de Portugal (English: Bank of Portugal) is the Portuguese member of the Eurosystem and has been the monetary authority for Portugal from 1846 to 1998, issuing the Portuguese escudo. Since 2014, it has also been Portugal's national competent authority within European Banking Supervision. [3] The bank was founded by royal charter in ...
Alves Reis was a child of a humble family; his father was a financially troubled undertaker who ended up being declared insolvent.Reis wanted to study engineering.He started his degree but quit in the first year to marry Maria Luísa Jacobetti de Azevedo, sister of Octávio Jacobetti de Azevedo and daughter of de Azevedo and Beatriz, in August 1916.
3 November 1949 (age 74) Oliveira de Azeméis, Portugal. Alma mater. University of Porto. Occupation. Economist. Carlos da Silva Costa (born November 3, 1949, in Oliveira de Azeméis) is a Portuguese economist who served as Governor of the Bank of Portugal from June 7, 2010 [1] to July 20, 2020, when he was succeeded by Mário Centeno .
Defunct banks. Banco Espírito Santo : bailed-out by the Portuguese state in 2014 and re-organised into Novobanco. Banco Português do Atlântico. Banco Português de Negócios : sold to the Angolese Bank Banco BIC in 2012. Banco Privado Português. Banif Financial Group : bailed-out by the Portuguese state in 2015 and sold to Banco Santander.
The 2010–2014 Portuguese financial crisis was part of the wider downturn of the Portuguese economy that started in 2001 and possibly ended between 2016 and 2017. [1] The period from 2010 to 2014 was probably the hardest and more challenging part of the entire economic crisis; this period includes the 2011–14 international bailout to Portugal and was marked by intense austerity policies ...
Portugal's central bank is the Banco de Portugal, which is an integral part of the European System of Central Banks. The largest Portuguese banks are Banco Comercial Português and the state-owned Caixa Geral de Depósitos. [139] Portuguese banks hold strategic stakes in other sectors of the economy, including the insurance sector.
The Banco de Portugal sued Waterlow & Sons in the High Court in London because of counterfeiting. In one of the most complex trials in legal history, the case was finally settled in favour of the Bank in 1932. [4] William Waterlow retired from Waterlow's and was subsequently elected as the 602nd Lord Mayor of London. [5] [6]
Official website. Vítor Manuel Ribeiro Constâncio GCC GColIH (born 12 October 1943) is a Portuguese economist and academic who most recently served as Vice President of the European Central Bank, from 2010 to 2018. He previously served as Minister of Finance in 1978 and Governor of the Bank of Portugal from 1985 to 1986 and from 2000 to 2010.