Bank Millennium S.A. is a Poland-based commercial bank with headquarters in Warsaw, and owned by the Portuguese bank Millennium BCP. It is one of the largest banks in Poland and has been operating for 35 years. In 2018, it was the 7th bank in Poland in terms of asset value.[1]
History
Bank Millennium SA was established in 1989 as Bank Inicjatyw Gospodarczych BIG SA. Initially, 98% of shares in it were owned by Warta, Poczta Polska, PZU, Universal and Transakcja foreign trade headquarters (KC PZPR and ZSMP), and 2% were held by natural persons.[2] In 1992 the Bank's shares—the first shares of a financial institution—debuted on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. In 1997 the Bank merged with Bank Gdański SA (1997). A year later in cooperation with its Portuguese shareholder and partner Banco Comercial Português (BCP), the Bank launched the Millennium retail service network.