![]() In 2022 Bank Pekao's profits declined by 48.8% due to two main factors. Since 2022, the Headquarters of the Bank are located in the Forest Tower in Warsaw, Poland. The acquisition was facilitated by Poland's Bank Guarantee Fund (BGF), an institution aiming to maintain stability in the financial system and resolving issues with financially distressed institutions. Īt the end of 2020, Bank Pekao announced its acquisition of Idea Bank, which was subjected to compulsory restructuring to prevent bankruptcy. Bank Pekao also plans on opening several other offices across Europe. In September 2018 Bank Pekao has opened a representative office in London, with the aim to facilitate cooperation between Poland and the UK and to stay close to their clients and investors. In December 2016, Polish state-owned PZU together with Polish Development Fund acquired Bank Pekao – Poland's second largest bank previously owned by Italian bank UniCredit by buying a 32.8% stake in the bank for the amount of PLN 10.6 billion (EUR 2.6 billion). On 3 August 1999, Pekao became a member of the UniCredit company. Third Polish Republic (1989–present) Logo of Pekao UniCredit This retail network was created with the establishment of the Pewex "internal export" company, in 1972 out of the bank's structures. The offer of the bank for individual clients included a variety of goods covering, among others, groceries (including "Krakus" ham and western chewing gum), alcohol, cosmetics, textiles, household appliances, bicycles, motorcycles, cars, trucks, tractors, agricultural machinery, fuel, building materials, installation and sanitary equipment, and also apartments and furniture. Initially, for these vouchers (as well as directly for convertible currencies deposited in domestic and foreign bank representations) it was possible to buy both foreign and deficit domestic goods in the foreign sales network operated directly by Bank Pekao. Much earlier, in 1960, the bank began issuing its own vouchers, " Bon Towarowy PeKaO", denominated in US dollars. At the end of the 1980s, the total value of foreign currency accounts was US$3.3 billion. In 1974, the bank had around 91,000 registered accounts. The funds from B accounts could not be legally exported abroad, but in 1976 the rights of A and B accounts were leveled. In the 1970s, currency accounts in Pekao were divided into three categories: Account A for people paying currencies with documented origin, B accounts for payments with undocumented origin, and C accounts for foreigners. ![]() Monopoly on their conduct Pekao lost only in 1989 with the onset of economic reforms that swept in Poland and the communist bloc. ![]() In 1968, the Minister of Finance authorized the establishment of foreign currency accounts for persons working abroad in Bank Pekao. With the bank's help, the Poles who live abroad could support their families behind the Iron Curtain. People's Republic of Poland Īfter the end of World War II and the beginning of the Soviet domination in Poland, the bank took care of international financial operations conducted by the authorities of the newly established Polish People's Republic. By 1939 Pekao had branches in the capitals of most countries where Polish emigres had settled. The first branches were opened in France, Argentina, and the United States, and in Tel Aviv (now Israel). The company's shareholders were Pocztowa Kasa Oszczędności, Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego and Państwowy Bank Rolny. On 29 October of the same year, the Warsaw District Court entered Bank Polska Kasa Opieki SA in the commercial register. Starting from these assumptions, on 17 March 1929, the Ministry of Finance established Bank Polska Kasa Opieki Spółka Akcyjna. In 1929, the CEO of Pocztowa Kasa Oszczędności, Henryk Gruber, observed that there was a demand for a bank that could provide financial services to the eight million Poles living outside the country. The full name "Polska Kasa Opieki" may be translated literally as "Polish Bank of Aid", and the popular form "Pekao" sounds out the acronym "PKO". In 1939 the bank had branches in virtually every capital city of countries where Poles lived. The bank was founded in 1929 by the Ministry of Treasury as a national bank, mainly to provide financial services to Poles living abroad. Now Powszechny Zakład Ubezpieczeń owns 20% of the company, Polish Development Fund 12.80%, UniCredit 6.28% and others 60.94%. The Italian bank UniCredit used to own 59% of the company. ![]() Bank Polska Kasa Opieki Spółka Akcyjna, commonly using the shorter name Bank Pekao S.A., is a universal bank and currently the second largest bank in Poland with its headquarters in Warsaw. ![]()
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