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The Bank of England (BoE) has published key elements to its 2025 Stress Test of UK Central Counterparties (CCPs), along with a spreadsheet containing the relevant market stress scenarios. This exercise, the fourth of its...more
The Bank of England (BoE) has updated its stress testing webpage, announcing it has published two stress test scenarios for use by banks and building societies that are not participants in its concurrent stress testing...more
The Bank of England (BoE) has launched the 2025 bank capital stress test for the seven largest and most systemic UK banks and building societies. The exercise is the successor to the Annual Cyclical Scenario. The test...more
The Bank of England has updated its approach to stress testing the U.K. banking system. From 2025 onwards, the BoE will move from an annual to a biennial frequency for its main bank capital stress test...more
The Bank of England has published the final report on its system-wide exploratory scenario. The SWES was a 'system-wide' exercise, incorporating a wide range of financial firms and business models, focusing not on the...more
BoE stress testing: 2021 Climate Biennial Exploratory Scenario update - Reports on key recent regulatory developments focussing on banking and finance. See also our Financial institutions general regulatory news and other...more
BoE banking solvency stress test 2021 scenario - The Bank of England (BoE) has updated its stress testing webpage and published the solvency stress test 2021 scenario for banks and building societies that are not part of...more
Depositor protection identity verification: PRA CP3/21 - The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published a consultation paper, CP3/21, on depositor protection identity verification....more
The Bank of England has announced its climate stress test exercise for the financial services sector will be held in June 2021. Climate stress test launch - The stress test is a tool to (i) measure the risks faced in...more
The Bank of England has published a discussion paper seeking feedback on its proposals for a series of 2021 stress-tests on climate-related risks for the largest banks, insurers and the financial system. The stress tests will...more
The Independent Evaluation Office (the Bank of England's independent review body) has published its evaluation of the BoE's approach to concurrent stress testing of the U.K. banking system. It concluded that overall the BoE...more
Unbowed by personal attacks from the White House, Fed Chair Jerome Powell delivered remarks to the Economic Club of New York on Wednesday that markets used as an excuse to jump nearly 600 points by the closing bell. ...more
The U.K. Prudential Regulation Authority has published a statement on Systemic Risk Buffers and Pillar 2A in stress test hurdle rates. The Bank of England announced in its March 2018 Key Elements of the 2018 Stress Test that...more
The Bank of England has published a report entitled "Stress testing in the U.K. banking system: key elements of the 2018 stress test," providing details of the Annual Cyclical Scenario, which is the only stress test that the...more
The Financial Policy Committee of the Bank of England has published the latest UK Financial Stability Report. The FPC notes that the UK banking system is resilient and that UK banks are stronger than they were 10 years ago....more
The Bank of England has published the key elements of its 2017 stress test. The 2017 test will comprise two scenarios, the annual cyclical scenario and, for the first time, a biennial exploratory scenario. The stressed...more
The Bank of England announced that the results of the UK 2016 banking stress test would be reported to the relevant firms involved on November 29, 2016 and published on November 30, 2016...more
Bank of England Launches New Framework to Test for Cyber Vulnerabilities - On June 10, the Bank of England launched a new framework to help identify areas where the financial sector could be vulnerable to sophisticated...more