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PKO: Impact From CHF Mortgages Growing; Negative For Local Banks

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PKO (PKO PW) reported the costs of CHF mortgage restitution after the European close on Friday. Credit negative for Polish banks, Santander and ING both having assets in the country.


  • Mgmt sees additional costs of PLN1.128bn from mortgages “denominated and indexed to” CHF after a range of recent ECJ (European Court of Justice) cases.
  • This will bring the total 4Q23 legal provisioning expected to PLN1.988bn which looks like it will fully wipe out the quarter’s earnings (consensus has net income at c.PLN1.6bn).
  • The CHF mortgage issue is a known risk, but the continued negative court actions are growing the impact. This looks to be credit negative but relatively minor, the above figure is 4.6% of Sep-23 CET1, so contained and more of an equity risk. PKO reports on 8-Mar.
  • Could be viewed negative for Santander (SAN SM) and ING (INGA NA) via their local subsidiaries, Santander Polska and ING Slaski, along with the other Polish majors (Pekao and Millenium).

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