Fed finds major banks able to withstand ‘severe recession’

All banks pass stress test despite tougher scenario than in 2021

US Federal Reserve
US Federal Reserve

Major US banks all passed this year’s round of stress-testing by the Federal Reserve, offering some reassurance to policy-makers as the US faces a possible economic slowdown.

The stress test found the banking system could suffer aggregate losses of over $600 billion in a “severe recession”. But all of the 34 banks that took part in the test passed.

The system as a whole would see capital ratios drop by 2.7 percentage points, the Fed found, the biggest drop since 2018. This partly reflected the

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