Hungary has banned the issue of new foreign-currency mortgages and Poland is regulating them more strictly by, for instance, insisting that borrowers put down bigger deposits.
The forint rose, giving relief both to borrowers in foreign currency (who also include just over half the country’s businesses) and to their short-sighted lenders.
福林生值,让外币借款者(包括过半的国内企业)和他们短视的贷款者长舒了一口气。
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A big share of loans to companies in some countries is in foreign currencies, too, though devaluation is a two-edged sword for corporate borrowers.