56. Liquidity risk management

The liquidity risk is defined as the lack of possibility to pay the debts on time due to the lack of liquid assets. Lack of liquidity may arise from inappropriate structure of statement of financial position, misfit of cash flows, not received payments from contractors, sudden withdrawal of cash by clients or other market events.

The objective of liquidity risk management is to ensure the necessary level of funds to pay present and future debts (also potential) on time, taking into account the nature of performed activities and requirements which may occur due to changes in market environment, by shaping the structure of statement of financial position and off-balance sheet liabilities.

The Group’s policy concerning liquidity is based on keeping a portfolio of liquid securities and increasing stable sources of financing (stable deposit base, in particular). In liquidity risk management money market instruments, including NBP open market operations are also used.

56.1. Measurement of the liquidity risk

The Group makes use of the following liquidity risk measures:

  • the contractual and adjusted liquidity gap in real terms,
  • liquidity reserve,
  • measure of stability of deposit and loan portfolios,
  • stress-tests (liquidity stress-tests).

56.2. Forecasting and monitoring of liquidity risk

Liquidity gaps presented below include the sum of Bank’s adjusted liquidity gap (adjusted in terms of the following: permanent balances on deposits of non-financial sector and their maturity, permanent balances on loans in current accounts for non-financial entities and their maturity and liquid securities and their maturity) and contractual liquidity gap of the other Group entities.

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month
1 - 3
month
3 - 6
month
6 - 12
month
12 - 24
month
24 - 60
month
over 60
months
31.12.2014
The Group - adjusted gap in real terms 12,733,729 13,357,476 536,836 1,309,410 1,088,394 11,977,076 13,281,695 (54,284,616)
The Group - cumulative adjusted gap in real terms 12,733,729 26,091,205 26,628,041 27,937,451 29,025,845 41,002,921 54,284,616 -
31.12.2013
The Group - adjusted gap in real terms 6,980,540 13,323,611 (10,261,085) (843,470) 1,710,668 5,611,828 18,606,239 (35,128,331)
The Group - cumulative adjusted gap in real terms 6,980,540 20,304,151 10,043,066 9,199,596 10,910,264 16,522,092 35,128,331 -

 

In all time horizons, the Group’s cumulative adjusted liquidity gap in real terms , which has been determined as a sum of adjusted liquidity gap in real terms of the Bank and contractual liquidity gaps of the remaining Group entities, as at 31 December 2014 and as at 31 December 2013 was positive. This means a surplus of assets receivable over liabilities payable.

The table below presents liquidity reserve of the Bank as at 31 December 2014 and as at 31 December 2013:

Name of sensitivity measure31.12.201431.12.2013
Liquidity reserve up to 1 month* (in PLN million) 21,075 17,816

*Liquidity reserve equals the gap between the most liquid assets and expected and potential liabilities which mature in a given period of time.

As at 31 December 2014 the level of permanent balances on deposits constituted approx. 94.7% of all deposits in the Bank (excluding interbank market), which means a decrease by approx. 1.62 pp. as compared to the end of 2013.

The table below presents the structure of the Bank's sources of financing as at 31 December 2014 and as at 31 December 2013.

 31.12.201431.12.2013
Total deposits (excluding interbank market) 75.04% 79.56%
Interbank market deposits 0.20% 0.25%
Equity 10.57% 12.82%
Financing from the market 14.19% 7.37%
Total 100% 100%

56.3. The contractual cash flows of the Group’s liabilities excluding derivative financial instruments as at 31 December 2014 and as at 31 December 2013 respectively, by maturity

The tables below show the contractual maturity analysis presenting the outstanding contractual maturity dates by individual categories of statement of financial position and off-balance sheet liabilities, excluding derivative financial instruments as at 31 December 2014 and as at 31 December 2013 respectively.

The amounts denominated in foreign currencies have been translated using the average NBP exchange rate as at 31 December 2014 and as at 31 December 2013. The amounts disclosed comprise non-discounted future cash flows, both in respect of principal and interest (if applicable), in accordance with the contract, for the entire period to the date of the liability's maturity. In situations where the party to whom the Group has a liability is able to select the settlement deadline, it has been assumed that the earliest date on which the Group is obliged to settle the liability shall be taken into account. In situations where the Group is obliged to settle the liabilities in instalments, each instalment is allocated to the earliest period in which the Group might be obligated to settle. In the case of liabilities where the instalment is not fixed, the terms binding as at the reporting date have been adopted.

Contractual cash flows of the Group’s liabilities as at 31 December 2014 by maturity

Up to 1 month1 - 3 months3 months - 1 year1 - 5 yearsOver 5 yearsContractual valueCarrying amount
Liabilities:
Amounts due to the central bank 4,427 - - - - 4,427 4,427
Amounts due to banks 2,044,255 178,596 1,847,485 1,208,177 15,113,128 20,391,641 19,394,482
Amounts due to customers 109,773,316 12,560,306 35,033,627 16,953,648 2,099,152 176,420,049 174,386,766
Debt securities in issue 50,613 832,749 5,523,147 3,993,876 4,233,507 14,633,892 13,300,610
Subordinated liabilities - 39,123 48,666 327,788 2,648,527 3,064,104 2,413,985
Other liabilities 2,228,619 86,910 475,902 98,546 64,626 2,954,603 2,954,603
Off-balance sheet financial liabilities - granted 23,514,918 968,602 4,820,338 3,946,353 5,129,776 38,379,987 -
Off-balance sheet guarantee liabilities - granted 225,396 1,336,294 2,557,886 9,124,116 2,074,309 15,318,001 -

 

Contractual cash flows of the Group’s liabilities as at 31 December 2013 by maturity

Up to 1 month1 - 3 months3 months - 1 year1 - 5 yearsOver 5 yearsContractual valueCarrying amount
Liabilities:
Amounts due to the central bank 4,065 - - - - 4,065 4,065
Amounts due to banks 1,236,481 81,002 361,143 2,232,178 - 3,910,804 3,747,337
Amount due to customers 94,883,152 16,098,647 26,106,968 14,389,798 2,550,664 154,029,229 151,904,181
Debt securities in issue - 140,689 1,063,632 6,786,712 3,810,765 11,801,798 10,546,446
Subordinated liabilities - 34,688 35,292 348,471 2,013,270 2,431,721 1,620,857
Other liabilities 1,993,874 76,367 514,047 37,010 35,514 2,656,812 2,547,237
Off-balance sheet financial liabilities - granted 2,941,472 600,751 1,704,497 3,246,161 26,644,294 35,137,175 -
Off-balance sheet guarantee liabilities - granted 55,886 22,331 356,419 179,882 276,513 891,031 -

 

56.4. The contractual cash flows related to derivative financial instruments as at 31 December 2014 and as at 31 December 2013 respectively, by maturity Pochodne instrumenty finansowe rozliczane w kwotach netto

Derivative financial instruments settled in net amounts

Derivative financial instruments settled by the Group on a net basis include:

  • interest rate swaps (IRS),
  • Forward Rate Agreements (FRA),
  • Non Deliverable Forwards (NDF),
  • options.

The tables below show the contractual maturity analysis presenting the outstanding contractual maturity dates by individual categories of derivative financial instruments in respect of which the balance sheet date valuation was negative (a liability) as at 31 December 2014 and as at 31 December 2013 respectively.

The amounts denominated in foreign currencies have been translated using the average NBP exchange rate as at 31 December 2014 and as at 31 December 2013. In case of IRS transactions, non-discounted future net cash flows in respect of interest have been presented and in case of the remaining derivative instruments settled on a net basis, the amount of the valuation as at 31 December 2014 and as at 31 December 2013 respectively was adopted as the value of cash flows.

Moreover, in the table the cash flows from IRS transactions which constitute cash flow hedges in respect of loans with variable interest rates are shown separately.

31 December 2014Up to 1 month1 - 3 months3 months - 1 year1 - 5 yearsOver 5 yearsContractual value
Derivative financial instruments - liabilities:            
- Interest Rate Swap (IRS) transactions, of which: (4,881) 5,559 732,845 (2,446,745) (547,072) (2,260,294)
- derivative hedging instruments - - - - - -
- other derivative hedging instruments: options, FRA, NDF (179,655) (464,273) (425,585) (291,679) - (1,361,192)

31 December 2013Up to 1 month1 - 3 months3 months - 1 year1 - 5 yearsOver 5 yearsContractual value
Derivative financial instruments - liabilities:            
- Interest Rate Swap (IRS) transactions, of which: 90,370 (57,992) 111,747 111,310 (10,916) 244,519
- derivative hedging instruments 49,757 14,229 48,532 150,395 - 262,913
- other derivative hedging instruments: options, FRA, NDF (41,165) (8,319) (48,048) (41,165) - (138,697)

Derivative financial instruments settled in gross amounts

Derivative financial instruments settled by the Group on a gross basis include:

  • foreign currency swaps,
  • foreign currency forwards,
  • Cross Currency IRS (CIRS).

The tables below show the contractual maturity analysis, presenting the outstanding contractual maturity dates by individual categories of derivative financial instruments (inflows and outflows) in respect of which the balance sheet date valuation was negative (a liability) as at 31 December 2014 and as at 31 December 2013 respectively. The amounts denominated in foreign currencies have been translated using the average NBP rate as at 31 December 2014 and as at 31 December 2013. The amounts disclosed comprise non-discounted future cash flows, both in respect of principal and interest (if applicable).

In the table below cash flows from CIRS transactions which constitute cash flow hedges in respect of mortgage loans denominated in CHF, deposits negotiated in PLN and liabilities with fixed interest rates in USD are shown separately.

31 December 2014Up to 1 month1 - 3 months3 months - 1 year1 - 5 yearsOver 5 yearsContractual value
Derivative financial instruments:            
- outflows, of which: (5,566,617) (4,810,958) (6,306,363) (3,288,097) (793,347) (20,765,382)
- derivative hedging instruments (350,815) (274,035) (3,427,633) (1,260,840) (777,279) (6,090,602)
- inflows, of which: 5,811,258 1,627,944 7,801,094 7,415,672 2,796,292 25,452,260
- derivative hedging instruments 552,181 18,010 4,792,330 4,623,608 2,738,845 12,724,974

 

31 December 2014Up to 1 month1 - 3 months3 months - 1 year1 - 5 yearsOver 5 yearsContractual value
Derivative financial instruments:            
- outflows, of which: (1,849,706) (450,043) (1,495,046) (3,028,734) (1,071,151) (7,894,680)
- derivative hedging instruments (9,510) (104,562) (76,941) (762,546) (799,481) (1,753,040)
- inflows, of which: 2,667,156 660,715 1,277,266 4,458,373 1,601,828 10,665,338
- derivative hedging instruments 16,525 376,723 249,269 2,611,406 1,320,615 4,574,538

56.5. Current and non-current assets and liabilities

31 December 2014

Short-termLong-termImpairment allowancesTotal carrying amount
Cash and balances with the central bank 11,738,371 - - 11,738,371
Amounts due from banks 2,280,467 206,330 (111) 2,486,686
Trading assets 1,924,426 - - 1,924,426
Derivative financial instruments 1,139,752 4,355,070 - 5,494,822
Financial instruments designated upon initial recognition
at fair value through profit and loss
13,540,447 2,182,701 - 15,723,148
Loans and advances to customers 40,440,580 147,079,281 (8,022,477) 179,497,384
Investment securities available for sale 2,124,032 20,284,562 (129,369) 22,279,225
Securities held to maturity 141,157 92,201 - 233,358
Inventories 267,047 - (29,164) 237,883
Other assets 3,469,729 6,122,405 (506,848) 9,085,286
Total assets 77,066,008 180,322,550 (8,687,969) 248,700,589
Amounts due to the central bank 4,427 - - 4,427
Amounts due to banks 4,831,387 14,563,095 - 19,394,482
Derivative financial instruments 1,307,642 4,237,499 - 5,545,141
Amounts due to customers 161,167,443 13,219,323 - 174,386,766
Liabilities due to insurance operations 175,936 2,503,786 - 2,679,722
Debt securities in issue 6,506,131 6,794,479 - 13,300,610
Subordinated liabilities - 2,413,985 - 2,413,985
Other liabilities 3,162,267 197,638 - 3,359,905
Total liabilities 177,155,233 43,929,805 - 221,085,038
Equity - 27,615,551 - 27,615,551
Total liabilities and equity 177,155,233 71,545,356 - 248,700,589

31 December 2013

 Short-termLong-termImpairment allowancesTotal carrying amount
Cash and balances with the central bank 7,246,120 - - 7,246,120
Amounts due from banks 1,827,492 94,532 (28,583) 1,893,441
Trading assets 479,881 - - 479,881
Derivative financial instruments 822,349 2,178,511 - 3,000,860
Financial instruments designated upon initial recognition at
fair value through profit and loss
14,186,661 1,018,095 - 15,204,756
Loans and advances to customers 41,294,317 114,979,725 (6,650,780) 149,623,262
Investment securities available for sale 698,501 13,408,032 (33,455) 14,073,078
Securities held to maturity 18,314 19,691 - 38,005
Inventories 425,298 278,148 (53,805) 649,641
Other assets 2,199,584 5,628,201 (805,719) 7,022,066
Total assets 69,198,517 137,604,935 (7,572,342) 199,231,110
Amounts due to the central bank 4,065 - - 4,065
Amounts due to banks 2,279,311 1,468,026 - 3,747,337
Derivative financial instruments 1,065,920 2,262,291 - 3,328,211
Amounts due to customers 135,360,982 16,543,199 - 151,904,181
Debt securities in issue 1,383,963 9,162,483 - 10,546,446
Subordinated liabilities - 1,620,857 - 1,620,857
Other liabilities 2,749,043 176,645 - 2,925,688
Total liabilities 142,843,284 31,233,501 - 174,076,785
Equity - 25,154,325 - 25,154,325
Total liabilities and equity 142,843,284 56,387,826 - 199,231,110

56.6. Reporting of the liquidity risk

The Bank prepares daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports addressing liquidity risk. The quarterly reports are also applicable to the Group. Reports present the information on liquidity risk exposure and usages of available limits regarding the risk.

56.7. Management decisions concerning liquidity risk

The main tools for liquidity risk management in the PKO Bank Polski SA Group are as follows:

  • procedures for liquidity risk management, in particular emergency plans,
  • limits and thresholds mitigating liquidity risk,
  • deposit, investment and derivative transactions, including structural currency transactions and transactions for sale or purchase of securities,
  • transactions ensuring long-term financing of Bank’s lending activities.

To ensure an adequate liquidity level, the Bank and subsidiaries of the PKO Bank Polski SA Group have accepted limits and thresholds for liquidity risk. The limits and thresholds were set for current liquidity measures , medium and long-term liquidity measures.

Methods of liquidity risk management in subsidiaries of the Group are defined by internal regulations implemented by the Group entities which are characterised by high levels of liquidity risk measure outcomes.

These regulations are developed after consultation with the Bank and take into account recommendations issued by the Bank to the entities.