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All change in Poland’s performance table

Poland’s largest bank, PKO Bank Polski, is deposed from the top spot in this year’s overall best-performing table. Anita Hawser reports.
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Poland’s banking sector is “relatively sound”, with adequate levels of liquidity and capitalisation to offset weakening economic growth, according to Fitch Ratings.

However, bank profitability has come under pressure, the rating agency says, despite the rise in interest rates, driven to a large extent by the costs related to a borrower repayment holiday, which was booked in the third quarter of 2022.

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Anita Hawser is the Europe editor at The Banker. For the past 20 years, Anita has worked as a freelance journalist for a range of banking, finance and tech titles covering topics such as cybersecurity, financial crime, cryptocurrencies, payments, trade and supply chain finance. Before joining The Banker, Anita was Europe editor at Global Finance.
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