Updated September 28, 2026
What is Banco de Portugal?
In short
Banco de Portugal is Portugal's central bank and licenses both banks and credit intermediaries, the firms that arrange a loan for you rather than lending from their own balance sheet.
Banco de Portugal is Portugal's central bank and the authority that licenses banks and credit intermediaries. An intermediary is a company that finds you a loan rather than lending from its own money, and it has to be listed too. ActivoBank appears as 23, AMCO Portugal as 759 and Cofidis Portugal as 921. ComparaJa shows 0000375 and Doutor Financas 0000420.
Sources
- activobank.pt, checked September 26, 2026
- bportugal.pt, checked September 26, 2026
- bportugal.pt, checked September 26, 2026
- bportugal.pt, checked September 26, 2026
- cofidis.pt, checked September 26, 2026