Poland

Polish Factors Association (PFZ) reports a 34.6 percent market increase in the first semester of 2010.

Miroslaw Jakowiecki, President of the Board at Pekao Faktoring and Tomasz Biernat, Senior Manager at Pekao Faktoring in Poland provide Factorscan with an overview of the Polish factoring market covering industry environment, market performance, supply and future trends.

The EBRD is to provide a 50 million credit line to Bank BGZ for on-lending to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) operating in rural areas.

Agnieszka Broniecka, Marketing Specialist at Polfactor in Poland, talks to Factorscan about the Polish market s growing success and recent results, the increasing number of foreign players drawn to its potential and the continuing uncertainties of the Polish legal environment.

Lukas Bank could be looking to the factoring and leasing market for possible takeovers, according to

The combined turnover of the companies represented by the Polish Factoring Association (PZF) reached

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing an intermediated loan of

Dariusz Stec, Board Member of Polfactor SA, a pioneer in Polish factoring, spoke with Factorscan about the continuing bouyancy of the Polish factoring market despite the downturn, the developing scope of industries considering factoring for funding and the rising interest and presence of global players in the Polish factoring market.

Factoring turnover in Poland grew 6.6 percent in 2009, despite

Kredyt Bank has signed a contract with Comarch to implement the software firm s factoring solution into the bank's factoring division.