
Cyprian Krystek is a graduate of the University of Gdańsk, Poland with an MSc in Investments and Real Estate Management. His master’s thesis focused on adapting public investments to climate change using Cost–Benefit Analysis. He works as a Public Investment Consultant with experience supporting World Bank and EU projects, including EU funds acquisition and capacity-building in Public Investment Management in North Macedonia and Moldova.
Poland operates the largest electricity system in the European Union that has never produced a single kilowatt-hour from a domestic nuclear reactor, although building one has been declared government policy for more than four decades. Coal still supplied 56.2% of the country’s electricity in 2024…

Can CIPS, SPFS, and mBridge realistically replace SWIFT as the backbone of global financial messaging and settlement? Each alternative serves a distinct purpose: RMB internationalisation, sanctions resilience, or CBDC-based settlement, but none replicates SWIFT’s scale, and most still depend on i…
