Associação Portuguesa de Bancos
Acronym: APB
General Information
Identification Code: 55522233436-23
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Entity Form: Associação de direito privado
Registration Category: Trade and business associations
Registration Date: 4/12/2010
Last Update: 3/6/2024
EP Accredited Number: 0
Mission & Interests
Goals: The APB's object is to promote and perform all acts that may contribute to the technical, economic and social progress of its members' business activity and to the defence of their interests in relation to any public or private, Portuguese or foreign entities' initiatives with relevance for the Portuguese banking system.
APB's mandate encompasses:
- Represent and defend the interests of its members;
- Elaborate studies and opinions concerning the banking sector;
- Representing the sector in its relations with all national and international bodies.
- Collaborate with other national or foreign business associations;
- Designing and developing educational material for the general public in order to improve people's financial literacy.
- Proposing and defending changes or issuing standards that increase the sector's efficiency and perfect its instruments.
- Representing the sector in its relations with all national and international bodies.
Interests Represented: Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Interests:
- Banking and financial services
- Business and industry
- Competition
- Consumers
- Digital economy and society
- Economy, finance and the euro
- Education and training
- Employment and social affairs
- Single market
- Taxation
Levels of Interest:
- national
- european
Activities
Main EU Legislative Proposals: Follow-up and monitoring of Banking and Finance legislative initiatives, namely (but not limited to) those related with:
Banking and Prudential Regulation
- Single Supervisory Mechanism
- Prudential Requirements on Banks’ Capital, Liquidity and Leverage (CRR/CRD IV);
- Crisis Management/ Recovery & Resolution (BRRD/SRMR)
- Depositors Protection (DGS Directive)
- Banking Structural Reform
Banking Conduct, Retail Financial Services and Consumer Protection Regulation
- Payment Accounts Directive
- Mortgage Credit Directive
- Consumer Credit Directive
- Single Market for Retail Financial Services
- Financial Education
Digital Banking
- Digital Single Market
- Data Protection Regulation
- European Data Economy
- Fintech
- Cybersecurity
Financial Markets
- MiFID 2/MiFIR
- PRIIPs
- Cross Selling
- Capital Markets Union
- ESAs Review
- EMIR
- UCITS
- Central Securities Depositories
- Indices and Benchmarks
- Money Market Funds
- Market Abuse
- Credit Rating Agencies
- Transparency Directive
- Target2-Securities (T2S)
- Collateral Management
- AIFMD
- Short-selling
- Prospectus
- Securitisation
- Covered Bonds
- European Secured Notes
- Long Term Investment Funds
- Crowdfunding
- Private Equity & Venture Capital
- Cryptoactives market
Business Finance
- The Investment Plan: European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI)
- Sustainable Finance
- EU funding programmes
- Long-term Financing
- Access to Finance for SMEs
- Export Credit Finance
- Feedback on Declined Credit Applications
Business Insolvency and Restructuring
Payment Services
- PSD2
- Interchange Fee Regulation
- Cross Border Payments and Currency Conversion Regulation
- Digital Euro
Anti-Money Laundering Regulation
Accounting, Reporting and Taxation
- IFRS 9
- Supervisory Reporting
- Taxation (FTT - Financial Transaction Tax; AEOI - Automatic Exchange of Information; CCCTB - Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base)
Employment and Social Affairs
COVID-19 related initiatives that may have a direct or indirect impact on the banking system
Communication Activities: Colaboration with the EBF under the European Money Week.
Colaboration with the EBF in drafting answers to public consultations.
Cooperation with 5 other portuguese financial associations with the objective of enhancing the portuguese financial system and its capacity to help the development, investment and funding of the Portuguese Economy.
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A
Head Office
Address: Avenida da República, 35-5º
Post Code: 1050-186
City: Lisboa
Country: PORTUGAL
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EU Office
Address: Avenida da República, 35-5º
Post Code: 1050-186
City: Lisboa
Country: PORTUGAL
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Financial Data
New Organisation: false
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Membership Information
Members10 Percent: 3
Members25 Percent: 10
Members50 Percent: 0
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 13
Members F T E: 2.799999952316284
Info Members: APB's President is not included in the number provided above.
Structure
Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: The information can be found at: http://www.apb.pt/apb_members
Organisation Members: APB is member of the European Banking Federation
APB is member of the European Payments Council