Banco de Portugal (BdP) today warned that Rogério Sousa Gaspar is not entitled, in Portugal, to carry out financial activity reserved for institutions under the supervision of the institution, such as providing payment services.
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25/06/2026
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Na note, the BdP said that Rogério Sousa Gaspar, “acting in his own name or on behalf of third parties, is not able to develop, in Portugal, financial activity reserved for institutions under the supervision of Banco de Portugal, namely to provide payment services, including the sending of funds”.
The entity recalled that “the provision of the payment services provided for in Article 4 of the Legal System for Payment Services and Electronic Currency” is reserved in Portugal “to entities empowered to do so”.
The list of entities authorized to provide payment services can be consulted at Banco de Portugal’s ‘site’, concluded.

