IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sgm/pzwzuw/v13i55y2015p158-169.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Cross-Currency Interest Rate Swap in the Context of the Calculation of Capital Adequacy of Banks with Foreign Currency Mortgages (Cross-currency interest rate swap w kontekscie rachunku adekwatnosci kapitalowej banków posiadajacych walutowe kredyty hipoteczne)

Author

Listed:
  • Jan Kolesnik

    (Szkola Glowna Handlowa w Warszawie, Instytut Bankowosci)

Abstract

Polish banks have a large long currency position resulting from the portfolio of foreign currency mortgages, which they secure mainly using FX swaps and cross-currency interest rate swaps (CIRS). The purpose of this paper is to show how to take CIRS, which is one of the most popular methods of hedging against risk of CHF mortgages, into account in the calculation of capital adequacy. The paper also tries to answer the question whether the conversion of foreign currency mortgages will lead to changes in the treatment of CIRS in the calculation of capital adequacy of banks. The author points out that the conversion of part or all of the portfolio will eliminate the possibility for CIRS to be counted in the non-trading book and therefore a bank, instead of the capital requirement for credit risk, will have to set capital requirements for counterparty risk and position risk.

Suggested Citation

  • Jan Kolesnik, 2015. "Cross-Currency Interest Rate Swap in the Context of the Calculation of Capital Adequacy of Banks with Foreign Currency Mortgages (Cross-currency interest rate swap w kontekscie rachunku adekwatnosci k," Problemy Zarzadzania, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Management, vol. 13(55), pages 158-169.
  • Handle: RePEc:sgm:pzwzuw:v:13:i:55:y:2015:p:158-169
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://pz.wz.uw.edu.pl/sites/default/files/artykuly/pz_2015_3_2_kolesnik.pdf
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: http://pz.wz.uw.edu.pl/en
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    capital adequacy; CIRS; FX mortgages;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • G01 - Financial Economics - - General - - - Financial Crises
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • G23 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Non-bank Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Institutional Investors

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sgm:pzwzuw:v:13:i:55:y:2015:p:158-169. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/somuwpl.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.