With Spanish non-performing loan stocks now standing at around €69 billion, representing as much as 18.5% of the entire European NPL stock, Madrid is getting ready to host the ninth edition of NPL Iberia, the conference dedicated to Stage 1, Stage 2 and Stage 3 loan acquisitions and servicing across Spain and Portugal. The event, organised by SmithNovak, will take place on 24 November 2026 at the El Beatriz Madrid Auditorio, and BeBeez is media partner.
Organisers expect more than 180 delegates from over 100 companies, with 30 panellists from more than 10 countries across six sessions — up from the 160 delegates and 80 companies of the previous edition.
The agenda goes well beyond distressed debt in the narrow sense. Alongside Stage 1, 2 and 3 loans, the conference covers reperforming loans, secondary market transactions, private credit, real estate and single tickets: precisely the areas where investor attention has been shifting after years of large-scale bank disposals.
Around the table will be the full value chain of the Iberian market — banks, debt purchasers, real estate investors, servicers, regulators, law firms, consultancies, tech platforms, debt collection agencies, rating agencies and consumer finance players.
Confirmed participants include Antón Alfaya of Banco Sabadell, Saúl González and Luís Chaves of EOS, Margarida Maia and Pedro Valle-Domingues of Hipoges, Bruno Carneiro of Servdebt, Vitor Roma of AB CarVal, Pablo Reigadas de la Vega of Diglo, Javier Ventas of Accumin, Ilja Hagins of Revesta, John Russell of Belasko and Samuel Macanás of CNMV, the Spanish securities market regulator. SmithNovak’s regular client base for the series also includes Apollo, Blackstone, KKR, BlackRock, Lone Star Funds, Intrum, Arrow Global, Intesa Sanpaolo, UniCredit, Cerved, JP Morgan, Citi, HSBC and the European Central Bank.
On the sponsorship side, EOS is Globally Connected Investor Partner, with Accumin, Relational, Servdebt, Hipoges and Synthflow AI as standard sponsors, joined by Diglo and Indemo as associate sponsors.
One detail that matters for international attendees: all sessions are held in English, specifically to make the event accessible to a non-Iberian audience. As the organisers put it, the opportunity is equally relevant whether a company is headquartered in Madrid, Lisbon, Barcelona, Milan or London.
