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WOOD & Company in partnership with the Warsaw Stock Exchange (GPW) have organised the first Emerging Europe Financials Conference in Warsaw on 11-12 June 2015. The event brought together banks, insurers and financial firms with operations in Central and Eastern Europe as well as representatives of large companies in the region.
The event gathered 26 companies: Alior Bank, Alpha Bank, Athens Exchange Group, Bank Millennium, Bank of Georgia, Bank Pekao, Bank Zachodni WBK, Bucharest Stock Exchange, City Handlowy, CSOB, Erste Group, Getin Noble Bank, ING Bank Śląski, Komercni banka, KRUK, mBank, Moscow Exchange, National Bank of Greece, OTP Bank Group, PKO BP, PZU SA, Sava Reinsurance Company, TBC Bank, Vienna Insurance Group, Vozrozhdenie Bank and Warsaw Stock Exchange.
More than 70 investment fund managers and representatives of 46 financial institutions took part in 225 group and one-on-one meetings.
“GPW actively promotes the Polish capital market among foreign investors and regional issuers. There is no doubt that meetings and direct contacts are very helpful. We are glad that the conference is taking place in Warsaw because it is an important location for investors. The strong participation of regional companies confirms that the Polish capital market is an excellent venue to raise capital. We have a diversified base of institutional investors, including pension funds and investment funds with assets under management close to EUR 100 billion. We hope that such initiatives will strengthen the interest of potential issuers in our market,” said Grzegorz Zawada, Vice-President of the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
“The scale and format of the event which we have organised together with GPW is almost unprecedented in Warsaw. We are very happy with the reception of our initiative both by issuers and by local and international institutional investors,” said Grzegorz Skowroński, Director of WOOD & Company in Poland.
The Emerging Europe Financials Conference follows the format of the Polish Capital Market Days arranged by the Warsaw Stock Exchange together with partners around the world to promote the Polish capital market: the market of the fastest growing European economy.[1]
[1]Source: Bloomberg ranking “All-stars of the Global Economy”
