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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 ...
Born. ( 1949-11-03) 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 ...
Novobanco or Novo Banco, SA is a financial institution that stands out as one of the country's main commercial banks, based in Portugal. It was established on 4 August 2014, as a result of a restructuring and recapitalisation process by the Bank of Portugal to save the good assets of the previously bankrupt Banco Espírito Santo (BES).
The bank is primarily active in Portugal and Spain, Angola and Mozambique. In Angola, BPI is the market leader in corporate banking and its activity reached a 25% market share on its 50.1% stake in Banco de Fomento Angola (BFA) with 750,000 customers (as at December 2010). In Mozambique, the BPI maintains a 30 percent stake in the bank BCI Fomento.
Banco Comercial Português (BCP, lit. ' Portuguese Commercial Bank ' ) is a Portuguese bank that was founded in 1985 and is the largest private bank in the country. BCP is a member of the Euronext 100 stock index and its current chief executive officer is Miguel Maya Dias Pinheiro.
Mário José Gomes de Freitas Centeno (born 9 December 1966) is a Portuguese economist, university professor, and politician. From 2015 to 2020, he was Minister of Finance of Portugal in the government cabinet of Prime Minister António Costa of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS). He was the president of the Eurogroup and chairman of the board ...
Banco Português de Negócios (English: Portuguese Bank of Business), or simply BPN, was a Portuguese banking institution. It used to be a private bank, but was nationalized by the Portuguese Government in 2008 after a bad management and malpractice-related debt of 1.800 billion euros and several irregularities uncovered in the institution.
9 July 1955. (1955-07-09) (aged 58) Lisbon, Portugal. Known for. Bank fraud. Artur Virgílio Alves Reis [a] ( Lisbon, 8 September 1896 – 9 July 1955) was a Portuguese criminal who perpetrated one of the largest frauds in history, against the Bank of Portugal in 1925, often called the Portuguese Bank Note Crisis .