Records on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, dormant billions and a chance for the debut of the decade. Waldemar Markiewicz on the future of the capital market

The Warsaw Stock Exchange is breaking new records, which creates an excellent atmosphere around the market. However, as much as 55% of Poles' savings are still in safe bank accounts. How to release this frozen capital to finance the development of domestic companies? He talks about the barriers blocking the Polish trading floor and the chances of attracting global technology giants straight from Bukowina Tatrzańska Waldemar Markiewicz, president of the Chamber of Brokerage Houses.

– The basic reservoir of capital are household savings. Let's transfer 5-7% of this to the capital market, and huge amounts of money will flow into it – appeals the expert. He adds that one of the main problems is the strong preference given to housing investments, which in his opinion should be abolished. – This is in our hands, not Brussels – adds Waldemar Markiewicz.

In the conversation we discuss the following topics:

• Why is local capital critical for the development of small and medium-sized companies and how does the stock exchange help build the power of companies like Asseco Poland?
• Will the artificial intelligence giant – valued at tens of billions of zlotys, ElevenLabs – decide to… dual listing in Warsaw and wake up crowds of investors?
• What needs to happen for Poles to boldly reach for equity instruments and for the new Savings Investment Accounts (OKI) to repeat the Swedish success?
• Why do EU overregulations (e.g. complicated MiFID 2 surveys) and the tax system's favoring of real estate investments effectively discourage capital from the stock exchange?

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He leads the conversation Andrzej Stec, editor-in-chief of Bankier.pl.

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