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422 arrested and 4 031 money mules identified in global crackdown on money laundering
Law enforcement authorities from 26 countries and Europol announce the results of the European Money Mule Action ‘EMMA 6’, a worldwide operation against money mule schemes. +
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EBF publishes Financial Literacy Playbook for Europe
Today the European Banking Federation presents its Financial Literacy Playbook for Europe. This playbook is the result of the common efforts of national banking associations across Europe and the European Banking Federation. +
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COVID-19: What are banks doing to support families and companies?
In view of the exceptional times in which we find ourselves, the banking sector has been adopting measures to support families and companies either on its own initiative or within the scope of government incentives. +
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Private moratoria applied in the light of COVID-19 pandemic
Following the issue by the European Banking Authority (EBA) on April 2 of guidelines on public and private moratoria on loan operations in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic (EBA/GL/2020/02), Associação Portuguesa de Bancos (APB Portuguese Banking Association) began drafting an interbank protocol, with a view to defining general, transversal, harmonised conditions for private moratoria, which could be afforded similar prudential and accounting treatment to that allowed for legislative moratoria. +
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Covid 19: How to use banking services safely?
The banking sector is following recent developments related to the evolution of the disease due to a new Coronavirus ("COVID-19") and strictly following the recommendations of the General Health Directorate in this matter, in order to guarantee the recovery of banking activity with all normality.
See here the Portuguese Banking Association's recommendations. +