BZ WBK to boost mobile banking unit

Poland’s third-largest lender BZ WBK is counting on doubling the number of mobile banking customers to 1 million by the end of 2015, the bank’s mobile and internet segment director Tomasz Niewiedział was quoted as saying by the Polish Press Agency. “Our goal is to carry out 2 million transactions per quarter by the end of 2015,” Niewiedział also said. As of the end of November 2014 BZ WBK had 454,000 mobile banking customers, compared to 372,000 at the end of Q3 this year. In the third quarter of 2014, customers carried out 625,000 mobile transactions at the bank.