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‘Now, we have to deliver even more than expected’ Interview with Cezary Kocik, Vice-President of the Management Board, Head of Retail Banking, mBank Suparna Goswami Bhattacharya What factors led the transition of BRE Bank from a corporate bank to retail banking and eventually mBank? When BRE Bank decided to establish its retail business, Poland
International Finance Magazine Oct - Dec 2016
was just past a decade of transition. It has driven Polish nation to a substantial, even if not crucial, change in behavioural model according to banking. Together with democratic system development, a truly
commercial banking developed and customers became more acquainted with this model. BRE Bank decided that this was a window of opportunity for a corporate bank to try and run a totally different banking