Safe Bank

“Safe Bank” is a journal published by the Bank Guarantee Fund since 1997. The journal’s mission is to support the research on deposit guarantee, financial safety of banks and the stability of the financial system. Articles published in “Safe Bank” are reviewed. The Minister of Science and Higher Education awarded 40 points for a scientific publication in Safe Bank journal.

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PBN - Polska Bibliografia Naukowa

ekonomia i finanse
nauki o polityce i administracji
nauki o zarządzaniu i jakości
nauki prawne

MNiSW: 40
ICV (Index Copernicus): 92.17 (2024)

Recently Published

Effective supervision of an entity performing activities entrusted to it by a financial institution?
Published: 2026-10-30

This article will analyse one of the positions that appears to be the most dangerous from the point of view of the functioning of the financial market, a position which is unfortunately presented...

Assessment of key risks to economic policy, financial system stability and the credibility of the zloty
Published: 2026-10-30

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Od redakcji
Published: 2026-10-30

No abstract available

Moral Panic and Its Manifestations in the Polish Banking Sector
Published: 2026-10-30

The aim of this study is to characterize the concept referred to in sociology as moral panic, its components, and the use of its structural framework to analyze emotions and disputes with banks...

The Architecture of Development Finance Institutions and the Sovereign-Bank Nexus
Published: 2026-10-30

This article examines whether the crowding-out of private bank credit by public debt as a manifestation of the sovereign-bank nexus is empirically detectable in three banking systems with distinct...

Machine learning in the IRB model validation process. Regulatory aspects of its use from the perspective of the EBA, the ECB and the KNF
Published: 2026-10-30

Credit risk is one of the fundamental risk categories inherent to banking activities. Identifying and measuring it is important for the safety of individual credit institutions and the...

Announcements

CALL FOR PAPERS: A special issue of the magazine “Safe Bank”, prepared in collaboration with EFDI, on the topic of economic policy

2026-10-14

The European Forum of Deposit Insurers (EFDI), in cooperation with the Bank Guarantee Fund (Bankowy Fundusz Gwarancyjny, BFG) in Warsaw, invites submissions of scholarly and policy-oriented papers for publication in a special issue of Safe Bank (Bezpieczny Bank), to be released ahead of the EFDI Annual General Meeting which will be held in Gdańsk in May 2027.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue: Navigating through Uncertainty

2025-11-04

The Banking Guarantee Fund – publisher of the quarterly magazine Safe Bank – and the Polish Financial Supervision Authority i invites submissions for a special issue dedicated to the theme “Navigating through Uncertainty”. The special issue marks the 20th anniversary of the KNF and builds on the International Conference on Finance held in Warsaw on 23 September 2026.

Guest editor - prof. Jacek Jastrzębski, University of Warsaw, Chair of the Board of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority.

Topic and abstract submission deadline 25th October 2026. Submissions in English should clearly state the research question, methodology, and expected contributions. Papers must be original and previously not published elsewhere. All submissions will undergo a peer review.

Important Dates:
Notification of acceptance: 5th December 2026
Final paper due: 15th January 2027