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ECB bank supervisors want top-down stress test that bites

Proposal would simplify capital structure with something similar to US stress capital buffer

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The European Central Bank wants more control over how its stress test is conducted, with results that would feed more directly into capital requirements. The proposal would align the approach taken by the eurozone’s single supervisory mechanism (SSM) more closely with the methodology used in the US.

“The approach… pursued by the Federal Reserve, in our view, should be the way forward,” said Luis de

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