Bank securities – their admission to the Warsaw Stock Exchange

Abstract

One of forms of increasing the bank’s capital base is issuing the bank securities. In Polish law bank securities are regulated in the Banking Law Act as a separate type of securities. Transactions involving this type of securities are made every day, mostly between the banks (interbank market). The purpose of this publication is to present the less known possibility of public offering of bank securities - via their introduction and admission to the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE). Business value of this possibility is avoiding the time for lengthy legal requirements on drawing up the prospectus, its approval by the Commission (Polish Financial Supervision Authority) and making it available to the public. Moreover, public offering of the bank securities via WSE can also be made by the banks whose shares are not listed on the WSE. The above shows that bank securities can importantly influence the process of bank’s capital base increase being the alternative to the interbank market trading