BoE stress test finds UK CCPs resilient to extreme shocks
Bank will skip next year’s exercise to develop internal capabilities and resume testing in 2027
UK central counterparties (CCPs) have enough resources to absorb losses during extreme shock events, the Bank of England has found, after completing a stress test on them.
The results of the exercise, published today (December 9), note that CCPs experienced less depletion of resources this year than they did in the 2024 test. This, the BoE said, was likely to be because the 2025 test had a more favourable exercise scenario, which included fewer “shocks beyond historical worsts” than last year’s
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