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Bank stress tests

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  • Friday, 12 February, 2021
    Fed to test banks’ ability to withstand 55% fall in equity prices

    Regulators lay out criteria for annual stress exercise with stocks at record highs

  • Wednesday, 20 January, 2021
    Markets InsightPaul Tucker
    Time to look again at the financial system’s dangerous faultlines

    Change is needed after the pandemic stretched markets to the limit in March last year

  • Monday, 21 December, 2020
    LexUS banks
    US bank buybacks: less stress Premium

    Wall Street has soured on big financial institutions for good reason

  • Friday, 18 December, 2020
    Fed frees up US banks to resume share buybacks

    Pandemic stress test results show lenders to be ‘source of strength’, regulator says

  • Wednesday, 2 December, 2020
    Banks
    Global regulators to examine banks’ lending caution during pandemic

    Fed’s Quarles says institutions did not run down capital and liquidity buffers as hoped

  • Thursday, 24 September, 2020
    Gillian Tett
    The next financial crisis may be coming soon

    Fears of a credit crunch have already hit business confidence and worried banks

  • Thursday, 17 September, 2020
    Federal Reserve
    Fed mulls extension of bank dividend and buyback curbs

    US central bank says it will announce decision by the end of the month

  • Friday, 4 September, 2020
    Fed says stress test error affected Goldman and Morgan Stanley

    Central bank ‘miscalculation’ led to slightly inflated capital requirements for the two US banks

  • Monday, 10 August, 2020
    Goldman Sachs Group
    Fed denies Goldman’s appeal against stress test results

    Investment bank will have to maintain largest capital cushion among its peers

  • Promoted Content
  • Wednesday, 22 July, 2020
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    EU banks should heed lessons of 2008 crisis

    European lenders must tackle bad loans now instead of waiting

  • Sunday, 5 July, 2020
    European banks
    Fed stress tests predict European banks’ high rate of loan losses

    Forecast adds more pressure on region’s financial institutions to reduce US presence

  • Tuesday, 30 June, 2020
    Goldman to maintain dividends despite Fed capital demands

    Bank says it can meet extra cushion needs after stress tests as Wells Fargo cuts payout

  • Friday, 26 June, 2020
    LexUS banks
    US stress tests: scarlet letters Premium

    Banks’ increased caution curbs payouts to shareholders

  • Thursday, 25 June, 2020
    Fed caps dividends and bans buybacks by big US banks

    Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs shares fall in after-hours trading after central bank acts

  • Thursday, 25 June, 2020
    FT Alphaville
    If the Fed puts its stress test results in the shadows, it will backfire

    Opaque, aggregated results risk stoking instability.

  • Thursday, 25 June, 2020
    News in-depth
    Fed stress tests US banks for the pandemic era

    What to look for in Thursday’s unprecedented data dump from regulators

  • Friday, 19 June, 2020
    Fed to test banks on double dip and prolonged recessions

    Vice-chairman lays out ‘sensitivity analysis’ details to be used in gauging if dividends should be paid

  • Monday, 25 May, 2020
    European banks
    EU watchdog hopeful most banks can absorb €380bn pandemic hit

    Buffers ‘should be sufficient’ to protect lenders in short term, says European Banking Authority

  • Friday, 15 May, 2020
    Federal Reserve
    Federal Reserve warns of potential strains on US banks

    Financial stability report highlights elevated risks from loan losses and falling asset prices

  • Thursday, 14 May, 2020
    US banks
    Fed attacked for failing to halt US bank dividends

    Ex-FDIC chief says central bank was ‘wrong’ to allow payouts to continue during pandemic

  • Sunday, 3 May, 2020
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Pandemic is putting banks’ resilience to the test

    Regulators must ensure that lenders’ defences are sufficiently robust

  • Monday, 27 April, 2020
    Inside BusinessJonathan Ford
    Bank accounting an early casualty of Covid-19

    Rules designed to resolve the tests of the last financial crisis have already flunked this one

  • Monday, 6 April, 2020
    LexUS banks
    Bank dividends: fortress under siege Premium

    Halting these quarterly payouts would be wise given the new economic reality

  • Wednesday, 1 April, 2020
    LexUK banks
    UK bank dividends: the sound of breaking glass Premium

    Suspending payouts should bolster capital buffers

  • Friday, 20 March, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    BoE cancels stress tests to ease pressure on lenders

    Banks had raised fears new rules could spur huge rise in loan books losses

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