The Poles went on the stock exchange. Brokerage accounts are the most in history

Ashley Davis10/05/2025

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During the year, XTB obtained 249.4 thous. brokerage accounts – results from KDPW data. At the end of April, the company ran 491 thousand. 705 brokerage accounts, which means that she has become a new market leader. Within a month, 25.36 thousand were opened in XTB. bills.

“This is a historic change, because earlier There was mBank for 15 years (previously BRE Bank) ” – it was written in the XTB message.

It was stated that in the second quarter of this year XTB plans to launch IKZE, which will additionally supplement the offer of retirement products. In parallel, work is underway to introduce options and physical trafficking of cryptocurrencies.

In total, 2 million 109 thousand already has its investment account. 786 Poles are a historic record. Most, however, are inactive. Those with a minimum of one order on shares according to the latest available WSE data for the second quarter of 2024. There were 267 thousand. And this is the highest number from the first quarter of 2012.

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This indicates the growing popularity of investments in shares and other capital market instruments. This trend may increase, because interest rates have dropped, and according to the President of the NBP Adam Glapiński, it seems that in July in autumn they will fall even more. Already now unattractive for customers (since most keep money on interest -free current accounts), the deposit offer of banks will become even less attractive, which should attract funds to the capital market.

This year, the WIG wide market index has already increased by 30 percent, within 12 months by 18.2 percent, in 24 months by 63.5 percent, and in 36 months by 90.6 percent. Increases attract interest in the capital of people. As you can see from the above data, many begin to choose independent investing.

Increased traffic from individual investors has its risky sites. The new ones may not remember previous strokes, so their attitude may be similar to that of cryptocurrencies, meaning “grew and will grow”.

List of brokerage houses according to the number of bills assumed on the basis of Danyh KDPW

LP	Code	Participant	Number of bills
1	811	XTB SA	491 705
2	815/929	mBank SA Brake office	482 439
3	817	Bm pekao	204 468
4	818	ING Bank Śląski SA Brake office	196 990
5	821	Brokerage House of Bank Ochrony Środowiska SA	177 115
6	840	BM PKO BP	165 020
7	844	Santander Brokerage Office	116 543
8	846	BM Alior Bank SA	97 123
9	855	BNP BNP PARIBAS Bank Polska SA office	43 708
10	863	Noble Securities SA	26 240
11	868	BM Bank Millennium SA	18 033
12	875	Bank Handlowy in Warsaw SA	16 921
13	880	Trigon DM SA	14 436
14	886	BDM SA Brokerage House	14 219
15	887	Brokerage Bureau of Bank Handlowy in Warsaw SA	10 055
16	902	Bank Millennium SA	9 821
17	906	IPopema Securities SA	6 768
18	912	Bank Polska Kasa Care SA	6 416
19	914	Michael/Ström Dom Maklerski SA	5 911
20	915	mBank SA	1 691
21	916	BNP Paribas SA Branch in Poland	1 484
22	920	Q Securities SA	827
23	922	PKO BP SA	346
24	924	Bank Polska Spółdzielczości SA	268
25	936	Deutsche Bank Polska SA	247
26	945	Societe Generale SA Branch in Poland	228
27	950	Erste Securities Polska SA	160
28	954	SGB-Bank SA	132
29	956	NWAI DOM Brokerage SA	132
30	959	BNP Paribas Bank Polska SA	129
31	965	Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego	111
32	974	ING Bank Śląski SA	67
33	979	Alior Bank SA	19
34	980	PGE DOM Brokerage SA	9
35	986	Investment Funds Depositary Services SA	5
TOGETHER:			2 109 786