Model of Institutional Protection Scheme in Polish Cooperatives Banks

Abstract

This paper concerns the current issue of the threat of bankruptcy of cooperative banks in Poland and the model of the Institutional Protection Scheme (IPS) in Polish cooperative banks developed in this context. Such systems have been established in two associations of national cooperative banks as cooperatives managing the IPS. It was also inflenced by European regulations, including the EU directive, through the introduction of appropriate provisions under the CRD IV/CRR package. The authors attempted to confim that the IPS system signifiantly improves the security of associations of cooperative banks and individual banks. Since it is necessary to cover all cooperative banking with this system, the specifiity of functioning of such a system is therefore analysed and its benefis and barriers were presented. The authors conducted their own case study based on the Cooperative – BPS Association Protection System.