Back at the beginning of this decade, the future looked promising for Bank Handlowy, the Polish foreign trade bank which then enjoyed a virtual monopoly in corporate banking. Now it is looking rather less so, thanks to the increased foreign competition and Handlowy’s failure to purchase any of the Polish banks including Bank Polska Kasa Opieki (Pekao) and Bank Zachodni which were recently up for sale.
According to Darius Gorski, analyst with Robert Fleming, the bank has lost more than half of its share of the corporate banking market since 1991.
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