Stress tests
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
BoE plans to link system-wide and individual stress tests
Meanwhile, ECB wants to broaden system-wide stress models to include central counterparties
Bowman won’t commit to stress-testing tariff shock
Nominated Fed vice-chair stonewalls calls to run ad hoc scenario similar to 2020 Covid test
BoE unveils scenario for annual stress test
First exercise since framework update will simulate milder conditions than previous version
Fed’s NBFI scenario may be more use than CCAR – experts
Main severely adverse scenario does not capture contagion risks from any squeeze on non-banks
ECB calls for new macro-pru approach to address cyber risks
Stress-testing should combine top-down and bottom-up elements, latest bulletin says
Key lessons from 15 years of macro-prudential policy
Pedro Duarte Neves reviews how macro-prudential tools can be used for maximum effect
EBA launches stricter EU-wide stress test for 2025
Banks face more scrutiny of credit risks following “overly optimistic projections” in past exercises
Stress-test findings should be combined – BoE’s Benjamin
Bank’s director of financial stability strategy emphasises importance of “joining the dots”
Basel stops short on wrong-way risk
New guidelines a step in right direction, but experts warn they won’t prevent another Archegos
Central banking amid uncertainty and Trump 2.0
Deglobalisation set to challenge the central banking orthodoxy of the past 40 years