As of 18 December 2022, there have been changes with respect to consumer loans, including instalment purchase. The amendment ends any discretion to add additional commissions and margins.

As the Polish economy matures, Polish entities are more and more often becoming part of the world's business ecosystem.

The cash payment limit between entrepreneurs will change from 1 January 2017.

Signing of the Act on the principles of obtaining information about the criminal record of people applying for employment and people employed in financial sector entities ("the Act")

The Warsaw Financial Regulatory Podcast is the latest initiative of the A&O Shearman regulatory team led by Paweł Mruk-Zawirski.

On 12 February 2014 the duty to report derivatives transactions to trade repositories, envisaged by EMIR, shall enter into force.

Significant changes to the derivatives market are being introduced by EU Regulation No. 648/2012 on OTC derivatives, central counterparties and trade repositories which entered into force on 16 August 2012.

The Polish Parliament recently adopted the Act of 6 December 2018 on amendment to the Civil Code (the "Act"), which may be of significance to many financial institutions and borrowers.

In previous IFLR issues, this series of bulletins has covered parallel debt and pledge administrator as concepts allowing to secure a multi-facility syndicated structure with Polish lawgoverned security interests.

In May 2017, the Polish Government published the second, improved draft bill introducing Real Estate Investment Trusts ("REITs") in Poland, following the first one which was announced in October 2016.

On 26 April 2011, the Ministry of Finance adopted a subsequent version of the draft assumptions for the Reverse Mortgage Loan Act (the previous version is dated 19 April 2010).

The Warsaw Financial Regulatory Podcast is the latest initiative...