Specialty Group: Financial Institutions and Markets

INTRODUCTION On April 19, 2021, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland, presented Budget 2021: A Recovery Plan for Jobs, Growth, and Resilience.The budget proposes to extend business and in ...

Bank of Portugal (BoP) Notice no. 2/2021 was published, defining the regulatory framework applicable to the activity of payment institutions and electronic money institutions, defining the regime applicable to payment in ...

On 11 March, the Finance Bill 2021 was published, ensuring a number of tax changes set out by the Chancellor in the Budget 2021 earlier will take effect from the start of the next tax year beginning in April 2021. In th ...

On 22 February, Circular Letter 06/2021 of Bank of Portugal, that establishes the implementation of the BPnet service in electronic communications when it comes to behavioral inspection activities, was published. This C ...