Some European banks still failing net interest income test

Swedbank joins seven other outliers after it updates methodology assumptions

Bank of Ireland, Swedbank and Bank of Cyprus might come from opposite corners of the European Union, but they have one thing in common: they – and several others like them – are in danger of failing a key supervisory test that measures whether banks are at risk from sudden moves in interest rates.

Eight banks are in breach of a threshold beyond which EU regulators consider a lender’s interest rate