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DB USA flunks Fed stress test
Deutsche Bank (DB) USA failed the latest round of the Federal Reserve’s annual stress tests, while Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and State Street were handed conditional passes that will limit their capital distributions in upcoming quarters. The US operations of Deutsche Bank flunked the Fed’s Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review on qualitative grounds, as a result of “widespread and critical deficiencies across the firm’s capital-planning practices”. This was despite DB USA acing the quantitative tests by reporting a post-stress common equity Tier 1 capital ratio of 12.2% – far above the 4.5% required minimum.
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