A 10 billion barrel discovery, a doubled market capitalisation, and a farm-down to TotalEnergies. How Galp handled an asset too big to develop alone.
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EDP: How a Nationalised Utility Became a Global Renewables Group
From 1976 nationalisation to a global renewables platform with China Three Gorges as its largest shareholder — and a 44% profit rise in 2025.
Why Foreign Capital Owns Most of Portuguese Banking
Four of Portugal’s five largest banks are state-owned or foreign-controlled. How resolutions and forced sales between 2011 and 2026 rewrote the ownership map.
Banco BPI and CaixaBank: Anatomy of an Iberian Cross-Border Bank
Nine years after the CaixaBank takeover, BPI shows exactly what changes when a foreign group buys a national bank — and what does not.
Caixa Geral de Depósitos: What a 150-Year-Old State Bank Does With €1.9 Billion of Profit
Portugal’s 150-year-old state bank earned a record €1.904bn in 2025 and paid the Treasury €1.25bn. How the 2017 recapitalisation produced Europe’s most resilient stress-test result.
Millennium BCP: How Portugal’s Largest Listed Bank Learned to Live With Poland
A record €1.02bn profit, Chinese and Angolan anchor shareholders, and a Polish subsidiary still paying for Swiss-franc mortgages sold before 2009.
Novo Banco: How Portugal’s Bridge Bank Became France’s €6.7 Billion Prize
From the 2014 BES resolution to a €6.7bn French acquisition in 2026 — how novobanco became the most instructive case study in European bank restructuring.
