, erected 1836-1937 On 7 February 1919, by the order of the
Head of State Józef Piłsudski, the Postal Savings Bank was created. Its first director was appointed on 28 December 1919, . For many years during the
Second Polish Republic, was the president of the PKO. With time, a bank's head office was established in Warsaw with headquarters at ul. Świętokrzyska 31/33 and the first local branches: in
Kraków,
Lwów,
Łódź,
Poznań, and
Katowice. From 1920, the bank had a legal personality as a state institution. The employees of the funds were associated in the Association of Postal Savers Workers, which had their own wheels at larger branches, e.g. in Warsaw, in Łódź. During the
German occupation of Poland, in the
Second World War, Bank Polski operated under German management. In 1945, the cash register activity was resumed. On 1 January 1950, the Postal Savings Fund was liquidated, and its agencies were taken over by the General Savings Bank (). In 1974, the PKO offer was enriched with a savings and settlement account for natural persons (commonly known as ROR). From 1975 to 1987, the PKO branches operated within the structures of the
National Bank of Poland, retaining their identity. On 1 November 1987, PKO Bank Polski became an independent bank again, as part of the economic reforms implemented by the communist government of Poland in its last years. In 2019, they were announced the title sponsor for the Polish
Ekstraklasa. On 2 February 2024 the bank dismissed eight out of eleven members of the supervisory board. 5 days later, on 7 February 2024, the President of the Management Board of the bank Darius Szwed resigned, leaving the bank the following week. On 15 February
Szymon Midera was appointed as acting President of Management Board. ==Operations==