Limiting of expenditures of the repayment of foreign currency mortgage loans

Abstract

Foreign currency loans concentrated in 2012 a  major share of credit portfolio of the whole banking sector in Poland. Among them the most important part had loans indexed or denominated in swiss franc and euro. Due to very long crediting periods (20–30 years) as well as lack of common availability hedging instruments to retail clients, currency loans may unexpectedly generate additional costs and materialize fx risk into credit risk. One of the method of optimizing of costs of currency loans repayment is a  conscious choice of a  day of currency purchase, which will be used next to pay back installments of the loan. The results of research show that one may distinguish days when franc and euro priced toward Polish zloty give reduction of costs of currency loans.