Traple Konarski Podrecki & Partners

Head of the FinTech practice.

Attorney-at-law, Partner, Head of FinTech Team

Specialises in FinTech and payment services, legal protection of information (personal data, professional secrets of the banking, insurance and payments market), law of the financial institutions market (in a broad sense of the term), IT (including outsourcing and cloud computing issues), as well as TMT (Telecommunications Law).

He provides legal advice to companies and financial institutions operating on the Polish and international markets. He cooperates with more than 60 data controllers from various sectors. Jan Byrski is a legal expert at the Polish Chamber of Insurance (PIU) and the Foundation for Development of Non-Cash Transactions (FROB). Jan Byrski is a Vice-President of the FinTech Committee of the Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications (PIIT). He participated in the drafting of amendments to the Act on Payment Services, and the Act on the Protection of Personal Data, as well as the Banking Law, and the Act on Electronic Signature. Jan Byrski, PhD, Habil is an assistant professor in the Chair of Civil and Business Law of the Faculty of Finance and Law at the Cracow University of Economics.

Polish, German and English

He is a legal expert at the Polish Chamber of Insurance and the Foundation for Development of Non-Cash Transactions (FROB). He is a member of the IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals) organization and SABI-IOD (Data Protection Officer Association, Poland), and Vice-President of the FinTech Committee of the Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications (PIIT). He is a member of working parties at the KNF Office on the development of financial innovation (FinTech) and MC working groups, including distributed registers and blockchain. He takes part in parliamentary work on the adaptation of Polish law to PSD 2, interchange fee regulation (IF Reg), the GDPR, and numerous amendments to the Act on the Protection of Personal Data and the Act on Payment Services.

He is a professor in Economic Law of the Faculty of Finance at the Cracow University of Economics. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University, and attended the School of German Law of the Jagiellonian University, University of Heidelberg, and the University of Mainz, and the School of Austrian Law of the Jagiellonian University and the University of Vienna. He studied at Ruhr-Universität Bochum on a scholarship awarded by the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation. He has been on scholarships at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald, Johann Gutenberg Universität Mainz, and Max-Planck-Institut für Immaterialgüter-und Wettbewerbsrecht.