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The European Banking Federation (EBF) today shared its reaction to three major digital finance proposals put forward by the European Commission: a legal framework for a digital euro, the Financial Data Access framework and the Revision of EU rules on payment services.

As part of its Financial Education Project, the APB created a training program specifically for journalists who regularly follow financial sector issues.

Students from the Sobreira Secondary School climbed the podium of the European Money Quiz 2023 and won a €1,000 prize for the school in Paredes. Francisco and José Silva were in Brussels representing Portugal in the European final of the Quiz.

Banco de Portugal has today released the Digital Financial Literacy Strategy for Portugal, outlining the vision and action plan for the next five years. Its goal is to empower the population to use digital financial services properly and reduce digital financial exclusion.

The exceptional measures set out in Decree-Law 80-A/2022, enacted by the Government to address the rapid surge in the commonly used mortgage interest rate indexes, have reinforced the existing mechanisms prescribed in the legal framework for preventing and resolving credit default, as established in Decree-Law 227/2012, as amended by Decree-Law 70-B/2021.

Released on the 3rd of April, within the framework of the Monitoring Committee of the National Financial Education Plan (PNFF) meeting, this report includes the financial literacy activities carried out by the 33 partners of the PNFF, which also includes the APB, throughout the year 2022.