Bank News: Citibank; Bank Millenium; BRE Bank; Shopping with mBank

The Consumer and Competition Protection Office (UOKiK) will examine whether CITIBANK had the right to draw up a list of professions considered "unsafe" for granting loans to, despite the fact that it accepted their application forms (Gazeta Finansowa, Feb. 22-28, p. 29) ... After three quarters of 2002 BANK MILLENIUM'S profit topped zl. 247 million. The major factor to have contributed to the result was the sale of pension fund Ego for zl. 56.3 million (Gazeta Finansowa, Feb. 22-28, p. 9) ... BRE BANK will accept e-applications for its financing program for SMEs together with access to an electronic creditability calculator (Gazeta Finansowa, Feb. 22-28, p. 7) ... Neutron-IT (NI), which runs the on-line store easy-Shop and mBANK signed an agreement on cooperation in mTransfer services. NI created a module in tegrating easy-Shop software with mTransfer service allowing payments by bank transfer for shops using the easy-Shop system. (Gazeta Finansowa, Feb. 22-28, p. 9) J.K.