Wspólna Platforma Informatyczna (WPI – the Common Information Platform) was awarded in the 1st edition of the "Cooperative Technology of the Year 2020" competition in the "Comprehensive solution of IT companies dedicated to cooperative banking" category. The competition was organized by the Polish Bank Association and the Center for Banking Law and Information. The solution has already been implemented in the Cooperative Bank in Płońsk and Lubaczów.

WPI is a project implemented in a SaaS model. The solution is dedicated to all cooperative banks, but provides each of them with the autonomy to conduct business. In addition, it minimizes investment costs on the customer side. When deciding to implement WPI, the bank does not bear the risk of financial failure of the project, as this element is taken on by Asseco. WPI is an implementation of the Asseco BooX solution dedicated to cooperative banks. This is the first solution of its kind in Poland, which contains everything a modern financial institution needs. This solution has been already launched at the Cooperative Bank in Płońsk and Lubaczów.

For a cooperative bank, WPI means the elimination of investments and the predictability of costs. This is because the platform is available in a SaaS model, which brilliantly reduces the costs associated with having separate infrastructure and resources to maintain them. Asseco takes over responsibility for hardware infrastructure, server room maintenance, software licenses and updates, as well as activities such as day/month/year closures. Within a single subscription fee, the cooperative banks in Płońsk and Lubaczów received everything necessary for the day-to-day operation and development of a modern financial institution. Thus, the banks' new offerings can be implemented faster, and the commonality helps not only to meet regulatory obligations, but also to reduce costs, said Andrzej Nowakowski, Director of the Cooperative Banks Division, Asseco Poland.

The award was received on behalf of Asseco by Zbigniew Pomianek, Vice President of the Management Board of Asseco Poland, during the Cooperative Banking Technology Forum. He emphasized the great importance of the teams working on this project.

I would like to thank very much the management boards of the banks in Płońsk and Lubaczów for deciding to implement this solution, and, above all, the teams of these organizations for their cooperation in this initiative, said the representative of Asseco. As part of the joint effort, we transferred virtually all of the banks' systems to Asseco's cloud solutions. This required great commitment from the project participants, which resulted in the success of this endeavor at both institutions, he added.

The purpose of the "Cooperative Technology of the Year 2020" competition, in which cooperative banks, banking groups and IT companies took part, is, among other things, to promote unique solutions that can be used by cooperative banks within the framework of available technologies and solutions developed by IT companies. Among the winners of the competition was the Wschowa Cooperative Bank, which uses solutions from Asseco, and was awarded in the category "IT team in cooperative banking."

For more information about WPI, please see: https://wpi.asseco.com/

Asseco has won in another category of this year's Global Finance "The Innovators 2021" competition. The distinction went to the Data Science & Artificial Intelligence team. The editors of the magazine awarded prizes to organizations that work on innovative solutions dedicated to the financial sector.

The financial sector is a very promising area for the implementation of solutions based on artificial intelligence algorithms - said Patrycja Sobczyk, Senior Analyst, Data Science Team Leader. Following this trend, our team focuses on implementing machine learning algorithms in Business Intelligence class tools. Our goal is to improve the work of everyday users of Asseco's systems by modernizing and automating their processes using artificial intelligence, she added.

The award in the "Best Financial Innovation Lab" category is the second distinction awarded to Asseco in this year's edition of "The Innovators 2021" competition. Poland's largest IT company has already won the title of "The Outstanding FinTech Innovator in Central and Eastern Europe for 2021" for the development of Asseco Customer Intelligence (ACI) analytical system and machine learning models used in it.

Global Finance magazine is published in 191 countries. Its readers are mainly people making strategic decisions in international companies and financial institutions.

For more information about Asseco Customer Intelligence, please see aci.asseco.com.

Asseco was ranked 12th in the "Ranking of the 200 largest Polish companies" prepared by the editors of the Wprost weekly. In 2020, the company generated PLN 12.2 billion in sales revenues, which is 14% more than in 2019. The sales of its proprietary products and IT services increased, compared to the previous year, by 11% and amounted to PLN 9.6 billion.

The company moved up 4 places in this year's list. As the editors pointed out, the acceleration of digital transformation, caused by further restrictions due to the pandemic, provided IT companies with an opportunity for further growth.

Owing to a consistently implemented strategy and strong sector diversification, Asseco managed to achieve high profits in all of its operating segments.

We consistently pursued our strategy of strong business diversification, at the level of countries, sectors and products, said Adam Góral, President of the Management Board of Asseco Poland. We continued to focus on sales of proprietary software and provision of related services as well as on increasing the scale of our business through further acquisitions. Last year we were joined by 15 new companies, which helped reinforce our position on foreign markets, he added.

The European Forum on Electronic Signature and Trust Services (EFPE) is Europe's largest international conference on electronic trust services, including e-signature, as well as electronic identification and digital security. The theme of this year's edition is "E-identification and Trust Services as the Future of the Digital Economy." The event will be held in an online format, and representatives of business, academia and e-transformation support organizations from around the world will summarize how the nearly year and a half pandemic has affected the development of paperless services.

During the speeches, interviews and discussions, the experiences of selected industries will be presented and expectations will be discussed, as well as the development directions of the market for trust and e-identification services globally. A group of experts will engage in discussions from the fields of law, business and new technologies. The undeniable impact of digitization on both sustaining business continuity and rebuilding the economy after the COVID-19 pandemic and global economic development in the coming years will be discussed.

The European Electronic Signature Forum is a key event in the security and trust services market. For more than 20 years we have been bringing together the worlds of business, government and academia to exchange experience, knowledge and views. This year, for the second time, we will meet online. This format worked well during the previous edition of the event and allowed more than 600 participants from 39 countries. Despite the huge challenge, we managed to connect interested listeners with experts from all over the world. We hope that this year’s EFPE will meet the expectations and give answers to the questions we have, especially in this era of such accelerating digital transformation, said Tomasz Litarowicz, EFPE Conference Director.

Paperless without secrets

This year’s EFPE returns in an even more attractive and rich online format. The upcoming edition will take place on June 10, and among the speakers are representatives from recognized Polish and international companies and organizations, i.e. the European Commission, the ISO International Organization for Standardization (USA), the ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute Santander Leasing, Samsung Electronics Polska, Cosmos Corporation (Japan) or Asseco Data Systems.

During the event, lectures, debates and discussions will address issues such as:

Market changes in 2020/2021 in eID and trust services: Poland and Europe. An overview of the most important trends taking into account two main areas: regulatory at the European Union level and user expectations and needs. Speeches will deal with legislative and business projects that contribute to the development of e-services in the context of the European Commission's strategic plans related to digitization, the green economy and its post-pandemic recovery. The focus is on the user and defining their needs in the context of mass adoption of eID and trust services. Practical application of trust services. Representative examples of trust service implementations from the last 12 months. Exchange of international experience and determination of conditions for the success of implementation of such projects: from the economic side and from the user's point of view. The Future of the Digital Economy. Regulatory, technical and product trends in the eID and trust services market. The answer to the question of which of these will determine the directions of development in the coming years in the areas of standardization, technology and strategic support for business and administration.

The partners of the European Electronic Signature Forum are Samsung Electronics Polska, Obserwatorium.biz and ARIADNEXT, and the event is held under the honorary patronage of the Secretary of State at the Chancellery for Digitization Marek Zagórski, the Digital Poland Association (Związek Cyfrowa Polska), the Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications (PIIT), the Polish Information Technology Association (PTI), the Cloud Signature Consortium, the European Signature Dialog and the Research and Academic Computer Network (NASK).

Information about EFPE 2021 and the registration form are available at: www.efpe.pl

Asseco won the Global Finance’s "The Innovators 2021" competition for another year in a row. In this year's edition, Poland's largest IT company won the title of "The Outstanding FinTech Innovator in Central and Eastern Europe for 2021". Asseco was recognized for the development of Asseco Customer Intelligence (ACI) analytical system and machine learning models used in it.

The coronavirus pandemic and related market changes have left companies needing support in digitizing their business and attracting new customers who are increasingly communicating with them through digital channels. Many companies are therefore faced with the challenge of dynamically adapting their offerings to the clients’ current expectations. Moreover, acquiring new customers for services and products is associated with costs seven times higher than those spent on maintaining regular customers.

The accelerated digitization of business has put companies in need of tools that will enable them to act effectively in digital channels. Our solution, Asseco Customer Intelligence, is a system that, based on the data and observation of customers' online activities (social media, websites, mobile applications), analyses the data, determines the customer profile and recommends the best offer. Hence, it supports the sales process at its every stage - says Marta Mróz-Sipiora, Product Manager, Asseco Poland.

The system uses artificial intelligence (AI) with machine learning (ML) models. The implementation of these algorithms was the responsibility of the Data Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab team, which is responsible in Asseco for the development of Business Intelligence class products.

The purpose of "The Innovators 2021" competition was to recognize the most innovative institutions and providers of services and solutions that set new trends for the financial sector.

Asseco was once again awarded by Global Finance. In previous competitions, the winning solutions were: Asseco Customer Intelligence (ACI) - Innovator for Corporate Banking, Asseco Enterprise Banking Platform - Digi Trade (Asseco EBP - Digi Trade) and Asseco Advisory Banking Platform (Asseco ABP). The company also won an award in the category of "The Most Innovative Banks and Fintech Companies - Central & Eastern Europe" in 2020.

Global Finance magazine is published in 191 countries. Its readers are mainly people making strategic decisions in international companies and financial institutions.

For more information about Asseco Customer Intelligence, please see https://aci.asseco.com/.

Asseco Poland pays the highest income tax among IT companies operating in Poland, according to a ranking prepared by the Rzeczpospolita daily. At the same time, it is ranked among the 10 largest payers of CIT.

Asseco is guided by the idea of economic patriotism and pays taxes in the places where it earns revenues. As a result, the Asseco Group companies based in Poland paid more than half a billion zlotys to the state budget in 2019 under various public taxes.

The international Asseco Group, operating in 60 countries around the world, follows the principle “we think globally, act locally”. By paying taxes in the country where it sells its products and services, it emphasizes corporate responsibility for its environment and a conscious approach to the local community.