EBA unveils 2016 stress test methodology

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The EBA is based at London's Canary Wharf

The European Banking Authority (EBA) unveiled the methodology for this year's stress tests of banks in the European Union today (February 24). Unlike the previous stress tests, held in 2014, there will be no single pass or fail level of capital adequacy.

Instead, the results of the stress test will be used to inform the Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process (SREP) to be held later in 2016, the EBA said. Publication of the results, the EBA added, would also enable market participants to "make

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