ANALYSIS OF BANKING PERFORMANCE IN POLISH COMMERCIAL BANKS. SYMPTOMS OF THREATS

Worldwide tendency to decrease interest rates is a major threat to the Polish banks in the long term. In the future, the traditional way of conducting banking activities will have to be modified. The starting point for creating new strategies for Polish banks should be to depart from net interest income as the core model of generating banking income and embrace the prompt development of broadly understood non-interest activities such as private equity. Shift from typical of commercial banking sector loan-deposit to capital market activity may create many benefits for the Polish banking system.