Stockholm-headquartered debt purchaser and manager, founded in 1994 and listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, specialised in acquiring and servicing non-performing loan portfolios from European banks across 14 countries. Operates in Portugal through Lisbon-based Hofin Portugal, Unipessoal, Lda (NIF 518101347).
Hoist Finance is one of Europe’s established debt purchasers: a regulated, Nasdaq Stockholm-listed group that buys non-performing and performing loan portfolios from banks and financial institutions and manages them through amicable, long-horizon collection. As of the first quarter of 2026 the group operated in 14 European countries with around 1,035 employees and an investment portfolio of roughly SEK 34.4 billion, funding itself in part through retail deposit accounts in markets including Sweden, Germany, the UK, Poland, the Netherlands, Ireland and Austria.
Its Portuguese operating company, Hofin Portugal, Unipessoal, Lda, is registered in Lisbon under NIF 518101347 and appears in the Luso-Swedish Chamber of Commerce’s catalogue of Swedish investments in Portugal — placing a Swedish-regulated credit-management specialist directly inside one of Europe’s most active markets for bank loan-portfolio sales.
Portugal’s banks have spent a decade cleaning balance sheets through NPL portfolio sales, a market long dominated by Anglo-American funds and servicers. A Stockholm-listed, deposit-funded debt buyer setting up its own Lisbon entity adds a distinctly Nordic, regulated-bank flavour to that market — and another financial-services lane to the corridor.
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