While banks may practice all types of operations authorised to credit institutions, the remaining institutions may only carry out the activities and perform the operations permitted by the legal and regulatory rules governing their activity.

On the websites of credit institutions, financial companies, payment institutions and electronic money institutions, you can obtain information about the activities that they can carry out.

You can get more information about the activities of each type of institution in “Institutions > Type of institutions”.

You can also consult Banco de Portugal’s website for alerts on unauthorised financial activity, that is, on entities that operate without the necessary authorisation, detected by Banco de Portugal or other supervisory authorities.