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Swiss franc loan losses are a grey rhino for EU consumer finance

Impact on Polish banks exposed a blind spot on modelling legal risk that has wider implications, says mBank CRO Marek Lusztyn

The Court of Justice of the European Union, the Bank of Poland buildings overlaid by a charging rhino
Credit: Risk.net montage/Getty/Alamy/Konrad Zelazowski

In his book Boomerang, Michael Lewis portrays Greece ahead of the 2009 sovereign debt crisis as a country in which so many people had a stake in the problem that nobody had an interest in solving it. Arguably, Poland’s Swiss franc mortgage saga followed a similar logic. But while on the surface, the lesson for risk managers appears to be about exchange rate risk, in reality, the wider implications

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