Challenges of the banking sector

PKO Bank Polski SA’s strategy for 2016–2020 identifies the long-term challenges of the banking sector, which have been taken into account and addressed in the Bank’s and the Group’s strategic objectives and directions of activity.

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REGULATORY CHALLENGES

  • Increased burden on the financial sector (bank tax, deposit guarantee scheme)
  • CRD4 package - additional capital and liquidity requirements
  • Bank Guarantee Fund Act
  • PSD2 - benefit for new market entrants
  • eIDAS - electronic signature
  • MiFID2 - sophistication of sale process

POLARISING OF CUSTOMER NEEDS

  • Expectation of financial security
  • Fascination with new technologies, a growing number of users of new solutions
  • Needs shaped by the digitization of social life and by non-bank service providers
  • Current structure and growth potential of the Bank’s customer base
  • Change in the expectations of Polish undertakings, resulting from their development

DYNAMIC DIFFUSION OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES ON THE POLISH MARKET

  • Growing threat of cyber attacks
  • Cloud solutions, Internet of Things
  • Advanced analytics - monetization of data
  • Increase in cost efficiency and organizational efficiency and system process support
  • Digitization of access to general public services

LOCAL MARKET

  • New strategy for Poland’s economic growth
  • Necessity to tap into the inner potential of businesses and the economy
  • Decreased profitability of the banking sector
  • Consolidation of the financial market
  • Low birth rate, ageing of the population