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PKO Bank Polski

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Not to be confused withBank Pekao,Bank Polski,orBank Polski SA.
Powszechna Kasa Oszczędności Bank Polski Spółka Akcyjna
Company typeSpółka akcyjna[1]
ISINPLPKO0000016
IndustryBanking,financial services
Founded7 February 1919;105 years ago(1919-02-07)(as Pocztowa Kasa Oszczędności)[2][3]
1948(as Powszechna Kasa Oszczędności)[4]
Founder
HeadquartersWarsaw,Poland
Key people
Szymon Midera (ActingCEO)[5]
ProductsConsumer banking,corporate banking,finance and insurance,investment banking,mortgage loans,private banking,private equity,savings,securities,asset management,wealth management,credit cards
IncreasePLN2.645 billion ($580 million)(2020)[6]
Total assetsIncreasePLN438 billion[7]($103.7 billion) (2022)[8]
Number of employees
25,800(FTE,2020)[9]
Websitewww.pkobp.pl

Powszechna Kasa Oszczędności Bank Polski Spółka AkcyjnaorPKO Bank Polski S.A.(lit. 'General Savings Bank – Bank of Poland'), in shortPKO BPor simplyPKO,is a multinational banking and financial services company headquartered inWarsaw,Poland.It is one of the largest financial institutions in Poland and inCentral and Eastern Europe.[10][11]

PKO BP provides services to both individual and business clients, with a core business in Polishretail banking.As of 2018, it had 1,145 branches located in Poland and abroad and amarket capitalizationof 52 billionPolish złoty,equivalent to 13.8 billionUS dollar.

History

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PKO head office on Świętokrzyska Street in Warsaw in the 1930s
The same building in 2015, used byPolish Post

On 7 February 1919, by the order of theHead of StateJózef Piłsudski,the Postal Savings Bank was created. Its first director was appointed on 28 December 1919,Hubert Linde[pl].For many years during theSecond Polish Republic,Henryk Gruber[pl]was the president of the PKO. With time, a bank's head office was established in Warsaw with headquarters at ul. Świętokrzyska 31/33 and the first local branches: inKraków,Lwów,Łódź,Poznań,andKatowice.From 1920, the bank had a legal personality as a state institution.

The employees of the funds were associated in the Association of Postal Savers Workers, which had their own wheels at larger branches,[clarification needed]e.g. in Warsaw, in Łódź.[12]

During theGerman occupation of Poland,in theSecond World War,Bank Polski operated under German management.[13]

In 1945, the cash register activity was resumed. On 1 January 1950, the Postal Savings Fund was liquidated, and its agencies were taken over by the General Savings Bank (Polish:Powszechna Kasa Oszczędności). In 1974, the PKO offer was enriched with a savings and settlement account for natural persons (commonly known as ROR).

From 1975 to 1987, the PKO branches operated within the structures of theNational Bank of Poland,retaining their identity. On 1 November 1987, PKO Bank Polski became an independent bank again, as part of the economic reforms implemented by the communist government of Poland in its last years.

In 2019, they were announced the title sponsor for the PolishEkstraklasa.[14]

On 2. February 2024 the bank dismissed eight out of eleven members of the supervisory board.[15]5 days later, on 7. February 2024, the CEO of the bank Darius Szwed resigned, leaving the bank the following week.[16]On 15. February Szymon Midera was appointed as acting CEO.[17]

Operations

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PKO Rotundain Warsaw
PKO building in Kraków[pl],completed 1925
PKO building in Łódź[pl],originallyŁódzki Bank Handlowy
KredoBankinLviv,PKO's subsidiary inUkraine

Today (as at the end of 2015) PKO Bank Polski employs around 29,000 people and has a full-yearnet profitof over 7 billionPLN(more than 2 billionUS dollars). Its assets are worth more than 285 billionPLN(around 80 billionUS dollars). Bank was ranked 510 in theForbes Global 2000for year 2010.[18]The bank is also present outside Poland, notably in Ukraine after theacquisitionofKredoBank(Кредобанк). The company is headquartered in centralWarsaw.

Because of its size and position as one of the first banks, PKO Bank Polski is still one of the best recognized and most valuablebrandsin Poland. Specialists fromThe Bankermagazine estimated the value of Bank's brand at US$1 billion and inRzeczpospolita"Polish Brands 2010" ranking its value was set at PLN 3.6 billion.[19]In the 2011 edition of ranking "The BrandFinance® Banking 500" prepared by the British firm Brand Finance, which includes the most valuable bank brands in the world, PKO Bank Polski brand was valued at US$1.480 billion. It gives PKO Bank Polski the 1st place in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe and 114th place in the world.[20]

Ownership

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PKO Bank Polski is listed on theWarsaw Stock Exchange.As of 3Q 2020, the state directly and indirectly holds 31.39% of shares (29.43% belong to the State Treasury of Poland and 1.96% to state-ownedBank Gospodarstwa Krajowego).[21]

Financial data

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Year Net profit[22]
(in billionPLN) 		Assets[22]
(in billionPLN)
2018 3.741 324.3
2017 3.104 296.9
2016 2.874 285.6
2015 2.609 266.93
2014 3.079 243.8
2013 3.234 196.3
2012 3.738 193.2
2011 3.807 190.7
2010 3.311 167.2
2009 2.432 153.7
2008 2.881 131.2
2007 2.720 105.3
2006 2.047 99.8
2005 1.676 90.3
2004 1.872 85.1
2003 1.228 84.4
2002 1.051 82.0

Capital Group

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PKO Bank Polski is the leader of the Capital Group. In addition to the parent, the group structure includes wholly owned and majority-owned subsidiaries and associates. These pursue their own business objectives whilst supporting the Bank's sales objectives and acting as its service providers. The subsidiary companies also complement the Bank's offer with such services as leasing, settlement of electronic card transactions, factoring and investment fund management.[23]

Companies in PKO Bank Polski Capital Group - Direct subsidiaries:

  • PKO Towarzystwo Funduszy Inwestycyjnych SA (investment fund management, Warsaw)
  • PKO BP Bankowy Powszechne Towarzystwo Emerytalne SA (pension fund management, Warsaw)
  • PKO Leasing SA (leasing services, Łódź)
  • PJSC KredoBank(financial services, Lviv, Ukraine)
  • Inter-Risk Ukraina Sp. z o.o. (debt collection services, Kyiv, Ukraine)
  • Finansowa Kompania "Prywatne Inwestycje" Sp. z o.o. (factoring, Kyiv, Ukraine)
  • PKO Życie Towarzystwo Ubezpieczeń SA (insurance services, Warsaw)
  • PKO Finance AB (financial services, Stockholm, Sweden)
  • Bankowe Towarzystwo Kapitałowe SA (services, Warsaw)
  • PKO BP Finat Sp. z o.o. (intermediary financial services, Warsaw)
  • Qualia Development Sp. z o.o. 3 (real estate development, Warsaw)
  • Centrum Haffnera Sp. z o.o. (property management subsidiaries, Sopot)
  • Merkury – fiz an (invest the funds collected from participants in the fund, Warsaw)

Presidents

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See also

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References

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  1. ^"Statut: Powszechna Kasa Oszczędności bank Polski Spółka Akcyjna"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2021-01-10.Retrieved2020-05-28.
  2. ^Dekret o utworzeniu Pocztowej Kasy Oszczędnościowej,Dz. U., 1919, vol. 14, No. 163
  3. ^"PKO Bank Polski – 100 lat śmiałych decyzji".media.pkobp.pl.Retrieved2021-02-10.
  4. ^Dekret z dnia 25 października 1948 r. o reformie bankowej,Dz. U., 1948, vol. 52, No. 412
  5. ^ab"PKO BP's supervisory board appoints Szymon Midera as acting CEO".Reuters.reuters.com.Retrieved2024-04-04.
  6. ^"INFORMACJA O WSTĘPNYCH NIEZAUDYTOWANYCH SKONSOLIDOWANYCH WYNIKACH FINANSOWYCH GRUPY KAPITAŁOWEJ PKO BANKU POLSKIEGO S.A. ZA IV KWARTAŁ 2020 ROKU I 2020 ROK"(PDF)(in Polish).Retrieved17 November2022.
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  8. ^"The Global 2000".Forbes.Retrieved18 November2022.
  9. ^"Charakterystyka działalności"(in Polish).Retrieved18 November2022.
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  11. ^"PKO BANK POLSKI W LICZBACH".Retrieved2019-06-07.
  12. ^„Łódź w Ilustracji”, 1938, nr 1. s. 2 (grupa uczestników uroczystości poświęcenia łódzkiego lokalu Zrzeszenia; 9 XII 1937)
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  14. ^"PKO Bank Polski partnerem tytularnym Ekstraklasy"(in Polish). ekstraklasa.org. 28 June 2019.Retrieved8 February2021.
  15. ^"Nowe rozdanie w PKO BP. Zmiany w największym banku w Polsce".www.money.pl(in Polish). 2024-02-02.Retrieved2024-04-04.
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  17. ^"PKO BP's supervisory board appoints Szymon Midera as acting CEO".Reuters.Retrieved2024-04-04.
  18. ^"Forbes Global 2000".Forbes.
  19. ^"New current accounts in PKO Bank Polski's offer".PKO Bank Polski. 2011-03-10. Archived fromthe originalon 2012-07-21.
  20. ^"The BrandFinance® Banking 500".Brand Finance.
  21. ^"Financial results 3Q& 9M 2020"(PDF).PKO Bank Polski Investor Relations website.Third Quarter 2020. p. 44.
  22. ^ab"PKO Bank Polski/Investor Relations".
  23. ^"PKO Bank Polski/Capital Group".
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