+Guideline 6: Allowance for potential future negative scenarios

Guideline 6: Allowance for potential future negative scenarios

6.1 When assessing the consumer’s ability to meet obligations under the credit agreement, the creditor should make prudent allowances for potential negative scenarios in the future, including for example, a reduced income in retirement; an increase in benchmark interest rates in the case of variable rate mortgages; negative amortisation; balloon payments, or deferred payments of principal or interest.

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