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Published: 2025-05-09

Consumer bankruptcy and the problem of financial exclusion

Adam Reczuch Logo ORCID
Section: Problems and Opinions
https://doi.org/10.26354/bb.6.1.98.2025

Abstract

Consumer bankruptcy allows insolvent consumers for debt relief but is also related to restrictions on access to certain financial services, including transaction and credit services (blocking in bank accounts) which may cause serious difficulties for over-indebted consumers in the management of personal finance. Banks may discriminate bankrupts in various areas of financial services during the stages of bankruptcy proceedings and even after its finish. From a macroeconomic perspective, the increasing number of consumer bankruptcies may pose threats to the stability of the financial system and certain restrictions in access to credit services are necessary, but on the other hand, arbitrary exclusion from the area of credit services may deprive many debt-free consumers of the opportunity to improve their well-being and economic condition of households that were deprived of valuable assets, including housing, during bankruptcy proceedings.

JEL Codes

K34, L31

Citation rules

Reczuch, A. (2025). Consumer bankruptcy and the problem of financial exclusion. Safe Bank, 98(1), 106–125. https://doi.org/10.26354/bb.6.1.98.2025

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Vol. 98 No. 1 (2025)
Published: 2025-05-09


ISSN: 1429-2939
eISSN: 2544-7068
Ikona DOI 10.26354

Publisher
Bankowy Fundusz Gwarancyjny

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