Bank BPI

From CaixaBankNow or from your branch you can open an account in BANCO BPI, speeding up processes and simplifying paperwork.

Advantages:

1. We will be able to search for the BANCO BPI manager that best suits your needs, by location or by specialist service throughout Portugal.
2. Procedural and cost savings: via internal mail.

Digital document management service for NON-RESIDENT ACCOUNTS:
Without having to make a single trip to Portugal, you will have all the support you need to process your documents and meet Portuguese regulatory requirements.

The documents you need to open your account are sent in electronic format and in Spanish.

With this service, your company will avoid having to translate documents into Portuguese and provide an Apostille of the Hague (international legalisation of public documents).

This service will allow you to manage your cash in an integrated way.

From CaixaBankNow Business you will be able to:

• View balances and transactions of all accounts open with BANCO BPI.
• Make one-off transfers between accounts or TO THIRD PARTIES from the account open with BANCO BPI.
• Automate orders for transfers, according to a parameter defined by the customer — daily, weekly or monthly.
• Establish minimum balances.
• Automatic funding orders.

Advantages:

• Use of a single electronic banking system (CaixaBankNow Business).
• Comprehensive management of incoming and outgoing international payments.
• More efficient management of cash and financial resources.
• Optimisation of balances and improved profitability.
• Initiative in managing funds from your subsidiaries.

You can send international payments immediately through CaixaBankNow digital banking or from your branch, thanks to our direct and instant connection with BANCO BPI.

Introducing a new service: Instant transfers in under 20 seconds. You can order payments of up to 15,000 euros to Portugal accounts, with instant confirmation that the money has been paid into the recipient's account. Likewise, you can receive transfers immediately.

Advantages:

• Availability: Possibility of sending money through CaixaBankNow online banking 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
• Speed: Funds will be taken or paid into your account wherever possible.
• Security: With the CaixaBankProtect guarantee
• Bring forward the effective date: If the date and time of transfer allow, the effective date of the payment in the destination account can be brought forward: between Day (of sending), Day plus 1 and Day plus 2.
• Send emails: You can notify the transfer payee that it has been sent correctly.
• Acknowledgement of receipt: You have the option of receiving the SWIFT MT011 message that confirms that the transfer has arrived in the destination account.

With this service you can finance:

1. From the start of manufacturing all the way to exporting (pre-financing) product of sales of goods or services provision to PORTUGAL.
2. Payment deferral from export until the date of receipt (post-financing).

We have specialist groups at each Regional Division to provide technical support.

You can apply for this provision through your CaixaBankNow app.

There is a customer support service, where foreign trade specialists can resolve any query you may have, open from 8am to 6pm: 902 810 812

We manage your guarantees with Portuguese beneficiaries in tender processes and sales, and import contracts requiring a guarantee on their fulfilment or subsequent payment obligations.

We offer advice from our foreign trade specialists to choose the best solution in each situation.

Bilateral agreements are in place with Banco BPI to streamline the management and processing of guarantees and make prices the most competitive in the market.

With CaixaBankNow you will be able to manage all paperwork with your Portuguese customers or suppliers.

Advantages:

Online functionality:

• Check the situation of your letters of credit and the information on previous transactions.
• See the images of the documents, which are available as soon as we receive them at CaixaBank.
• Give instructions on documents, rejecting possible discrepancies regarding the conditions of the credit, or accepting them with the possibility of applying a financial penalty to the supplier for non-compliance.
• If you have many credit facilities, you can group the instructions in a file.
• Ask for hard copies credits at the location that is most convenient.
• Receive alerts via SMS or email when the credit is opened, related documentation is received or there is a change.
• Moreover, we put everything into place for you to open new letters of credit quickly and easily: i-credits and drafts.

i-credits with instant release of funds

Thanks to i-credits you can:

• Open credits at any time, and thus demonstrate to your supplier that you have the letter of credit in place.
• Open the credit quickly and easily, as all you have to do is complete a few basic fields.
• Issue it directly and immediately, and receive the SWIFT confirmation straight away.
• This system is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. There is no need to visit your branch.

Online specialists in Financing and Services, Foreign Trading and Cash Management can offer better customer service, adding value, responsiveness and security, through functionality designed to adapt to the specific needs of each operation.

With the country's leading online banking service, you will have access to BANCO BPI accounts and can manage all your accounts from one place, whether you belong to CaixaBank or BANCO BPI.

You could have a specialised, immediate and permanent service dedicated to companies that want to do business in Portugal, with the aim of supporting your global growth, making use of the BANCO BPI structure throughout the Portugal.
 
Specialist: We advise you and put at your disposal the products that Caixabank offers in Portugal through Banco BPI.

Responsiveness: you can use the SOLE POINT OF CONTACT service through your personal account manager, as soon as you realise you have a financial and/or business need in Portugal.

Permanent: Ongoing monitoring and support to achieve the best service in Portugal