Bank Pekao S.A., launched in 1929, has been one of the largest financial institutions in the region of Central-Eastern Europe and the second largest universal bank in Poland with PLN 280 billion in assets. With its second largest network of branch offices, Pekao Bank provides services to over 6.3 million clients. As a leading corporate bank in Poland it provides services to every second corporation in our country. The status of universal bank is based on the leading position on the market of private banking which for the past 25 years has been offering professional service and financial solutions to clients with high assets and managing assets as well as offering services to brokerage activity.
Diverse profile of activity of Pekao Bank is supported by the leading balance and profile of risk on the market, reflected in the lowest risk costs, strong capital factors and resilience to macroeconomic conditions (Pekao is the second most resilient bank among 50 banks in Europe according to extreme conditions’ tests conducted by EBA). Since 1998, Pekao Bank has been listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, participating in several local (including WIG 20 and WIG) and international indexes (such as MSCI EM, Stoxx Europe 600 and FTSE Developed). Pekao is one of the most dividend-yielding stock exchange companies in Poland over the space of the last 10 years, having reimbursed the total of PLN 20 billion in the course of the decade.
Pekao was the first bank to launch an ATM, issue a credit card or open a brokerage office in our country. It was the first one on the market to implement the possibility of remote opening of accounts on selfie and for corporate clients - to enable the possibility of using a broad range of signatures, approving electronic and eligible signatures, scans of handwritten signatures on documents as well as the trusted profile and the signature using the e-ID card introduced by the government administration.