Haitong Bank

Haitong Bank S.A. is a Lisbon-based investment bank wholly owned by the Haitong Securities group, following the 2015 acquisition and rebranding of Banco Espírito Santo de Investimento. It focuses on corporate and institutional clients, providing debt capital markets origination and distribution, M&A and corporate finance advisory, structured and leveraged finance, project and infrastructure finance, and securitization, alongside fixed income sales and trading. The bank does not operate as a retail franchise and does not market consumer current accounts, cards, or mortgages. Operations are coordinated from Portugal with a footprint in Iberia, the UK, Poland, and Brazil, where Haitong Banco de Investimento do Brasil S.A. serves the local market under Brazilian regulation. In Portugal, Haitong Bank is authorized as a credit institution and supervised by Banco de Portugal, with investment services oversight by the CMVM and prudential requirements aligned with EU banking rules; it is also subject to the European resolution framework. Funding is primarily wholesale-based, supplemented by institutional deposits, and its balance sheet is geared to corporate lending, syndicated facilities, and securities positions linked to underwriting and distribution. Integration with the wider Haitong group supports cross-border execution for European and Latin American issuers accessing international capital markets. Clients and counterparties should review the firm’s product scope, legal entity structure, and jurisdictional arrangements, which reflect its profile as a mid-sized European investment bank rather than a universal retail institution.