Stress tests
ECB looks to simplify bank regs, supervision and reporting
Recommendations include merged buffers, lesser reporting burdens and an easier life for smaller banks
Banks grapple with Fed’s double deadline on stress-test plans
Supervisor consulting simultaneously on next year’s test scenario and broader model changes
Is independence compatible with climate action?
Lessons from China indicate relationship between governments and central banks may need to change, argues Mathias Larsen
New Zealand banks can withstand geopolitical shocks, says RBNZ
Latest stress test monitors impact of recession and liquidity crisis triggered by potential global events
Stress-test transparency: how much is too much?
The transparency drive to disclose bank stress-test results comes with costs
BoE plans system-wide test on private credit risks
Bank aims to probe market after First Brands and Tricolor collapses raise alarms about subprime lending
DFAST monoculture is its own test
Drop in frequency and scope of stress test disclosures makes it hard to monitor bank mimicry of Fed models
Financial Stability Benchmarks 2025 report – the threat from tariffs
Benchmarks highlight how many central banks see tariffs as a high risk to financial stability
On the eve of the Fed’s framework review
Experts speak about the Fed’s monetary strategy review, including the role of flexible average IT and the need to better communicate policy trade-offs
Fed’s new leverage ratio: the horse that never left the gate
Most of the biggest dealers aren’t leverage constrained now, and experts are sceptical that banks will use the extra capacity for Treasuries
ECB study finds banks window-dressing before stress tests
Lower-ranked lenders shifted risky assets ahead of 2021 and 2023 exercises
Only 5% of central banks reveal individual bank stress-test results
Respondents share details of how stress scenarios are developed
European banks resilient to shocks, EBA says after test
Lenders’ greatest vulnerability is credit risk but they can withstand adverse scenarios, regulator says
Barr slams weakening of bank supervisory tests
Fed governor warns deregulation during boom times ushers in crises
Should the Fed mandate collateral pre-positioning at the discount window?
Supervisor wants lenders to be ready to access central bank facilities, but formalising pre-positioning has some drawbacks
High profits to cushion against bank losses – Danish central bank
Lenders in good position to deal with tariff turmoil, says National Bank of Denmark
CCAR at a turning point, but which way is forward?
Banks sniff an opportunity to push the Fed for more openness over stress test models – and seize capital benefits
Fed agrees to unveil stress test models in transparency U-turn
US regulator commits to September 30 deadline for new measures
Leverage ratio reform: the good, the bad and the Treasury
A simple cut would be less likely to stoke interest rate risk than exempting US government bonds
Climate stress tests should involve industry – BdF official
Bottom-up approach enables banks and insurers to capture environmental risks, says Laurent Clerc
Stress tests stronger in EU than in US – BdF research
Lenders remain well capitalised in both regions but European banks are more resilient, study finds