{"id":1911,"date":"2016-10-26T12:38:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T10:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bfg.pl\/?page_id=1911"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:50:07","slug":"for-depositors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bfg.pl\/en\/for-depositors\/","title":{"rendered":"Deposit Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poland&#8217;s deposit guarantee scheme is established by the Act on the Bank Guarantee Fund, Deposit Guarantee Scheme and Resolution of 10 June 2016. Prior to 8 October 2016, deposit protection was governed by the Act on the Bank Guarantee Fund of 14 December 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Polish law fully implements Directive 2014\/49\/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on deposit guarantee schemes (DGSD).<\/p>\n<p>Our deposit guarantee scheme covers eligible deposits held with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Credit institutions authorised in Poland (i.e., banks with their registered offices in Poland)*<\/li>\n<li>Cooperative savings and credit unions<\/li>\n<li>Branches of non-EU credit institutions operating in Poland**<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key features of Poland&#8217;s deposit protection:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Coverage limit:<\/strong> \u20ac100,000 per depositor, per institution<\/li>\n<li><strong>Repayment period:<\/strong> 7 working days from the date deposits become unavailable<\/li>\n<li><strong>Currencies:<\/strong> All currencies accepted (compensation paid in PLN)<\/li>\n<li><strong>EU compliance:<\/strong>\u00a0Fully harmonised with Directive 2014\/49\/EU<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>* Except Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego (Poland&#8217;s state development bank, exempt from insolvency proceedings) and mortgage banks (which generally do not accept deposits).<br \/>\n** Unless the branch is already covered by an equivalent deposit guarantee scheme in its home country providing at least the same level of coverage as required under EU law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poland&#8217;s deposit guarantee scheme is established by the Act on the Bank Guarantee Fund, Deposit Guarantee Scheme and Resolution of 10 June 2016. Prior to 8 October 2016, deposit protection was governed by the Act on the Bank Guarantee Fund of 14 December 1994. Polish law fully implements Directive 2014\/49\/EU of the European Parliament and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":38,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1911","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfg.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfg.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfg.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfg.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfg.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/bfg.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22622,"href":"https:\/\/bfg.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1911\/revisions\/22622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfg.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}