Who will procure the FM Bank?

As many as 14 subjects have registered to buy lender FM Bank from Abris Capital, Puls Biznesu reported. The information has yet to be confirmed. Most of the potential buyers are private equity funds including Enterprise Investments (owner of TFI Treasury and brokerage XTB), MCI fund (looking to expand its operations to financial services) and numerous foreign investors (AnaCap, Lome Star, Corsair Capital, JC Flowers, JRJ Group, Palamon Capital Partners). The buyer, however, needs to be approved by Polish Financial Supervision Authority, whose vice-presiident Łukasz Dajnowicz declared that private equity funds should not be bank owners in Poland. The list of other potential investors further includes Michał Sołowow, who is interested in developing a mobile bank, and a couple of bigger banks and financial firms, including Alior Bank, BOŚ Bank, Meritum, PKO BP, Kredyt Inkaso and Profireal Group.