Poles went for loans. Bank Pekao s vice president talks about what customers do during a pandemic
Along with lifting restrictions, Poles are increasingly looking for the possibility of taking a loan. They are also gradually giving up visits to bank branches, getting more and more business done online. We talk to Marek Tomczuk, Vice President of Bank Pekao SA, supervising the Retail Banking Division, about how coronavirus will change the banking industry. Adam Sieńko, Spider’s Web: An epidemic is changing the world we knew a lot. Will coronavirus also affect the banking sector? Marek Tomczuk, Bank Pekao SA: The current situation related to the COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented situation. While banks were conducting stress tests and preparing for various scenarios, no one was able to predict how the global lockdown would affect the economy, and thus the banking sector. We can look at this multidimensional economic shock in two ways. On the one hand, it is of a supply nature, i.e. production plants have been closed and supply chains have been disturbed. On the other hand, dem...