The ECB alerts eurozone banks to prepare for unprecedented shocks and introduces a new reverse stress test to expose hidden ...

This allows European banks to increase dividends and share buybacks, supported by profits and the end of negative interest ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Euro zone banks must prepare for unprecedented shocks causing severe disruptions with far-reaching ...

The European Central Bank would fail European Banking Authority stress tests, but this is not the issue the European markets should be worried about, says Willem Buiter, one of the world’s most ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank will face pressure on Thursday to say if it is worried by rising bank-to-bank lending rates, whether it will extend liquidity support and how it sees ...

FRANKFURT/MADRID (Reuters) -The European Central Bank will test banks' resilience to geopolitical turmoil next year, chief ECB supervisor Claudia Buch said on Tuesday, as part of a growing focus on ...

FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) - The European Central Bank is set to dominate Europe's new supervisory superpower, extending its influence into the wider financial system but posing new threats to its ...

The European Central Bank’s next stress test will ask lenders to come up with hypothetical situations in which risks like trade disruptions or wars could hit their financial strength. The exam next ...

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Signs of a U-turn in thinking at the top could see bank balance sheets finally cleaned up in ‘Europe’s Takenaka moment’, according to analysts at Berenberg Bank, warning a more punitive leverage ratio ...