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In 2012 the Portuguese debt, at 129% of the GDP, was the second highest in relative terms in the European Union only after Greece. [3] By the first semester of 2013, the Portuguese national debt increased to a record-high of 130% of the GDP, around 214.5 billion Euros or 293 billion US dollars. [4] In June 2014, the public debt reached 134% of ...
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 ...
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 ...
BES was the second-largest private financial institution in Portugal in terms of net assets (€80,700 million in March 2011), with an average market share of 20.3% in Portugal and 2.1 million clients. On 3 August 2014, Banco de Portugal, Portugal's central bank, intervened in the bank by applying a resolution measure that
The Economic Adjustment Programme for Portugal, usually referred to as the Bailout programme, is a Memorandum of understanding on financial assistance to the Portuguese Republic in order to cope with the 2010–14 Portuguese financial crisis. The three-year programme was signed in May 2011 by the Portuguese Government under then-Prime Minister ...
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 .
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.
Bad bank. A bad bank is a corporate structure which isolates illiquid and high risk assets (typically non-performing loans) held by a bank or a financial organisation, or perhaps a group of banks or financial organisations. [1] A bank may accumulate a large portfolio of debts or other financial instruments which unexpectedly become at risk of ...