12. Legal risk related to foreign currency mortgage
loans
On December 31, 2025, the Bank had 16,653 loan agreements and additionally 2,285 loan agreements
from former Euro Bank under individual ongoing litigations (excluding claims submitted by the Bank
against clients i.e. debt collection cases) concerning indexation clauses of FX mortgage loans submitted
to the courts (43% loans agreements before the courts of first instance and 57% loans agreements
before the courts of second instance) with the total value of claims filed by the plaintiffs amounting to
PLN 3,551.2 million and CHF 293.2 million (Bank Millennium portfolio: PLN 3,057.8 million and CHF
281.4 million and former Euro Bank portfolio: PLN 493.4 million and CHF 11.8 million). The original
value of the portfolio of CHF agreements granted (the sum of tranches paid to customers), taking into
account the exchange rate as at the date of disbursement of loan tranches, amounted to PLN 19.4 billion
for 109.0 thousand loan agreements (Bank Millennium portfolio: PLN 18.3 billion for 103.8 thousand
loan agreements and former Euro Bank portfolio: PLN 1.1 billion for 5.2 thousand loan agreements).
Out of 16,653 BM loan agreements in ongoing individual cases 426 are also part of class action. From
the total number of individual litigations against the Bank approximately 4,380 or 26% were submitted
by borrowers that did not have any active loans with a CHF balance at the moment of submission.
Approximately another 1,170 cases correspond to loans that were fully repaid during the proceedings
(as court proceedings are lengthy).
The claims formulated by the clients in individual proceedings primarily concern the declaration of
invalidity of the contract and payment for reimbursement of paid principal and interest instalments as
undue performance, due to the abusive nature of indexation clauses, or maintenance of the agreement
in PLN with interest rate indexed to CHF Libor (currently CHF Saron).
In addition, the Bank is a party to the group proceedings (class action) subject matter of which is to
determine the Bank's liability towards the group members based on unjust enrichment (undue benefit)
ground in connection with the foreign currency mortgage loans concluded. It is not a payment dispute.
The judgment in these proceedings will not directly grant any amounts to the group members. The
number of credit agreements currently covered by these proceedings is 1,389. Out of 1,389 loan
agreements in class action 426 are also part of ongoing individual cases, 27 concluded settlements and
15 received final verdicts (invalidation of loan agreement). On 24 May 2022 the court issued a judgment
on the merits, dismissing the claim in full. On 13 December 2022 the claimant filed an appeal against
the judgment of 24 May 2022. On 25 June 2024 an appeal hearing was held, at which the Bank filed a
motion to amend the composition of the group and exclude those group members who had entered into
an amicable settlement. The court required the plaintiffs' attorneys to take a written position on the
current composition of the group. On January 31, 2025, and then on: March 25, 2025, May 8, 2025,
June 6, 2025, July 30, 2025, September 1, 2025, October 6, 2025, November 24, 2025, December 15,
2025 and January 13, 2026, the court issued orders setting aside the judgment and discontinuing the
proceedings from the persons who entered into amicable settlements. On January 19, 2026, another
appellate hearing took place, during which the Court obliged both the claimant and the Bank to further
specify the composition of the group. The next hearing date will be scheduled ex officio. Based on these
orders, the number of credit agreements covered by the class action dropped from 3,273 to 1,389.
Until the end of 2019, 1,980 individual claims were filed against the Bank (in addition, 235 against former
Euro Bank), in 2020 3,002 (265), in 2021 6,151 (421), in 2022 5,754 (407), in 2023 6,864 (645), in 2024
5,838 (655) in 2025 3,712 (427).