Regional observers are predicting a bright future for Warsaw Stock Exchange lenders, the business website parkiet.pl reports, as net profits for the market’s top 10 players are expected to grow by 48 percent over the next couple of years. Alior Bank will likely post a 172-percent jump year-on-year in 2016, market watchers estimate.
This is in line with a recent forecast from the Polish National Bank. The bank expects the country’s GDP will grow by 3.3 percent this year, 3.8 percent in 2015 and 4.3 percent in 2016.