Powszechny Bank Kredytowy
 Former headquarters in Warsaw | |
| Bank PBK | |
| Type | State-owned enterprise |
| Industry | Financial services |
| Predecessor | National Bank of Poland |
| Founded | April 1988 |
| Defunct | 2001 |
| Fate | Merged |
| Successor | Bank BPH-PBK |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Poland |
| Products | Banking services |
| Owner | Polish State Treasury |
Powszechny Bank Kredytowy (lit. 'General Credit Bank'), also known as Bank PBK, was a Polish bank based in Warsaw. It was established in 1988-1989 by spinoff from the National Bank of Poland, and was eventually merged in 2001 with Bank BPH to form Bank BPH-PBK.
History
[edit]Bank PBK was one of nine regional banks spun off from the National Bank of Poland, the culmination of a sequence of reforms during the 1980s that brought an end to the country's single-tier banking system.[1]: 18
It was legally established in April 1988 and started operations on 1 January 1989. Its first president was Ewa Kawecka-Włodarczak.[2] Its name evoked a former affiliate of Vienna's Länderbank, also named Powszechny Bank Kredytowy (German: Allgemeine Kreditbank), which had been establish in 1910 in Austrian Galicia and relocated from there to Warsaw in 1926.[3]: 261
On 8 October 1991, Bank PBK was transformed into a joint-stock company, fully owned by the Polish State Treasury.[citation needed] By the mid-1990s it was the seven-largest Polish bank overall behind PKO Bank Polski, Bank Pekao, Bank Handlowy, Bank BGŻ, Bank PBG, and Bank Śląski.[1]: 18 In 1995, Vienna-based Creditanstalt acquired 13 percent of Bank PBK's shares in a partial privatization process. Also in 1995, Bank PBK took a 54.4-percent stake in Górnośląski Bank Gospodarczy (Bank GBG).[4] In 1997, it absorbed operations from the troubled Bank Morski, and in 1998, from Pierwszy Komercyjny Bank w Lublinie.[5]
The ownership stake of Creditanstalt, by then controlled by Bank Austria, in Bank PBK increased to reach 57 percent in 2000. In June of that year, Bank Austria-Creditanstalt announced that it would merge its own Polish subsidiary into Bank PBK.[6] In 2001, Bank Austria had itself come under the control of Munich-based HypoVereinsbank (HVB) which decided to merge Bank PBK with its own Polish subsidiary Bank BPH to form Bank Przemysłowo-Handlowy PBK.[7] The merged entity, also known as Bank BPH-PBK, was the third-largest bank in Poland by assets at the time.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 Thomas Smith Mondschean & Timothy Opiela (February 1997), Banking reform in a transition economy: The case of Poland, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
- ↑ Krystyna Doliniak (28 March 2012). "Bankowiec w pałacu". Forbes Polska.
- ↑ Janusz Kaliński (January 2005). "Austrian banks in Poland up to 1948". Bank Austria Creditanstalt: 150 Jahre österreichische Bankengeschichte im Zentrum Europas. Paul Zsolonay Verlag. pp. 253–267.
- ↑ Przemysław Szubański (29 January 1999). "Udana sanacja banku". Parkiet.
- ↑ "Ciche zniknięcie głośnego banku". Rzeczpospolita. 23 March 2000.
- ↑ "PBK i BA/CA połączą się". Bankier.pl. 13 June 2000.
- ↑ "PBK SA - Przyjęcie planu połączenia PBK i BPH". Bankier.pl. 5 June 2001.
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