Adam Uszpolewicz, chief executive, Aviva Poland, talks to Michael Dembinski, the BPCC's chief advisor, about the economy, the introduction of employees' capital plans and how technology is shaking up the financial services sector.

Last month, PwC published its Global Fintech Report 2019, based on a survey among more than 500 managers worldwide in the financial services (FS) and technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) sectors.

Blockchain technology has been enthusiastically embraced and promises new benefits in many sectors including M&A transactions. But how could blockchain technology impact M&A process?

Many people consider ‘offshoring’ as a way to reduce costs by moving low-value work to a place with lower wages, and then bundling similar work to increase process efficiency.

HL Tech is Hargreaves Lansdown’s Polish innovative technology centre, established in 2017 in Warsaw, responsible for software development and for the strategic digital transformation of the British financial giant, a component of the FTSE 100.

International banks and companies from the financial sector are relocating their offices to Poland in ever-increasing numbers.

Kaplan Financial is excited to be expanding to Poland to help businesses exceed and meet global demands.

Aon’s Polish Risk Management Survey is conducted every two years to identify the challenges faced by organisations and how they assess and respond to threats.

In recent months, the media has been constantly flooded us with reports about economic threats such as risk of losing important data, currency crisis, environmental risk and the potential economic effects that may come with it, Brexit and the rivalry between US and China.

According to the OECD Interim Economic Outlook released in September, the global GDP will grow by 2.9% , down from 3.2% in its previous forecast.

Payment deadlines in ‘asymmetric’ transactions – ones between large enterprises and SMEs– may not, under any circumstances, exceed 60 days.

In recent years, cloud computing has become a significant technological enabler for innovative service development.

The EU is working on creating new rules to support environmentally sustainable investments.

Following the MiFID II, PAD and AML IV Directives, the new Directive on payment services in the internal market (PSD2) is part of the so-called regulatory tsunami that we have witnessed in the EU in recent years.

IP Box (also called an Innovation Box) is a new tax credit introduced this year. It complements the R&D credit, which is already well known in Poland.

Starting this year, exit tax applies in Poland under the obligations imposed on Poland by the EU Directive to those who move their business together with their assets outside the country.

Businesses are obliged to provide tax authorities with information on tax schemes since 1 January 2019.

Since 2018, as a result of the implementation of the Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive (ATAD), new rules have been introduced regarding debt-financing costs.

The last 20 to 30 years have seen a host of spectacular corporate and financial failures worldwide, mostly in developed economies.

27 November 2019, InterContinental Hotel, Warsaw

On 22 November 2019, members of the BPCC’s HR policy group met with Karolina Stawicka, Paulina Grotkowska and Michał Zabost, labour law experts from law firm Bird & Bird Law, to discuss anti-mobbing procedures.

For a foreigner working in Poland, ZUS and PIT regulations are black magic. They differ significantly from the rules by which Polish employees pay their tax and social-security contributions.

Over 40 entrepreneurs and employees from finance and accounting departments took part in a meeting Changes in taxes and PPK - what should every entrepreneur know.

5 November 2019 at the Warsaw Marriott Hotel