EU bank stress test: A tale of two capital scores
With fully phased-in rules, the number of failures would rise from 24 to 34
Brussels
THE European Union's toughest-ever stress test was meant to leave banks with nowhere to hide. The results show how the bloc's capital rules got in the way.
A total of 24 lenders failed the European Banking Authority's stress test with a capital shortfall of 24.6 billion euros (S$39.8 billion). The EBA used EU rules as applicable over the three-year horizon of the test. These give national supervisors scope to allow banks to count instruments whose eligibility as core capital will be gradually eliminated over the next four years.
Had the fully phased-in EU rules been applied, the number of failures would have increased to 34, according to a calculation by Bloomberg News based on EBA results published in London on Sunday. That may be the more reliable gauge, since capital is a measure of a bank's capacity to absorb losses, and the jury's sti…
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