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:''This list covers formal bank stress testing programs, as implemented by major regulators worldwide. It does not cover bank proprietary, internal testing programs.'' A bank stress test is an analysis of a bank's ability to endure a hypothetical adverse economic scenario. Stress tests became widely used after the
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For example, in the U.S. in 2012, an adverse scenario used in stress testing was all of the following: * Unemployment at 13 percent * 50 percent drop in equity prices * 21 percent decline in housing prices.


Asia

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Monetary Authority of Singapore The Monetary Authority of Singapore or (MAS), is the central bank and financial regulatory authority of Singapore. It administers the various statutes pertaining to money, banking, insurance, securities and the financial sector in general, as ...
** Annual Industry-Wide Stress Testing exercise (usually around Q1) *
International Monetary Fund The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution funded by 191 member countries, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It is regarded as the global lender of las ...
** 2011 and 2012 stress testing of Japan banks, Financial System Stability Assessment Update (FSAP) *
China Banking Regulatory Commission The China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) was an agency of the People's Republic of China (PRC) authorised by the State Council of the People's Republic of China, State Council to regulate the Chinese banking sector, banking sector of the P ...
** 2011 CARPLES risk indicators framework *
Australian Prudential Regulation Authority The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is a statutory authority of the Australian Government and the prudential regulator of the Australian financial services industry. APRA was established on 1 July 1998 in response to the recom ...
** 2014 industry stress test *
Reserve Bank of New Zealand The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) () is the central bank of New Zealand. It was established in 1934 and is currently constituted under the ''Reserve Bank of New Zealand Act 2021''. The current acting governor of the Reserve Bank, Christian ...
** 2014 major bank stress test


Europe

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Financial Services Authority The Financial Services Authority (FSA) was a quasi-judicial body accountable for the regulation of the financial services industry in the United Kingdom between 2001 and 2013. It was founded as the Securities and Investments Board (SIB) in 1985 ...
( UK) ** 2008 Stress and scenario testing CP08/24 ** 2009 Stress and Scenario Testing Feedback on CP08/24 *
Bank of England The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based. Established in 1694 to act as the Kingdom of England, English Government's banker and debt manager, and still one ...
** Annual industry stress test * European Banking Authority ( euro area) ** 2009 European Union bank stress test ** 2010 European Union bank stress test ** 2011 European Union bank stress test ** 2014 European Union bank stress test *** The stress test was part of the Comprehensive Assessment by the
European Central Bank The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central component of the Eurosystem and the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) as well as one of seven institutions of the European Union. It is one of the world's Big Four (banking)#International ...
. ** 2016 European Union bank stress test (scenario release: Wednesday 24 February 2016) ** 2018 European Union bank stress test (scenario release: Likely end February 2018 " final methodology will be published as the exercise is launched, at the beginning of 2018,")


Americas

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Federal Reserve System The Federal Reserve System (often shortened to the Federal Reserve, or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States. It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, after a series of ...
** 2009 Supervisory Capital Assessment Program (SCAP) ** Note: ''there was no 2010 stress test in the USA'' ** Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) *** 2011 *** 2012 *** 2013 **** A private conference call was held with banks to notify them of a new, two part information release by the Fed *****March 7, 2013 – Banks will be ''privately'' notified of the Fed's tentative decision on capital distribution plans. ***** Banks receiving a "no" will then have a 48 hours to ''privately'' resubmit to the Fed a reduced a distribution plan. *****March 14, 2013 – the Fed will publicly disclose final decisions on requests for capital distributions *****The week of private negotiations between the bank and the Fed will allow banks to adjust their request downward to what the Fed will allow. This was specifically designed to allow banks to avoid ''"embarrassing capital-plan rejections"'' *****Shareholder lawsuits are expected if banks fail to disclose capital distribution plans and Fed rejections (even if labeled "informal") as the majority of shareholders and prospective shareholders regard bank dividend and share buyback plans, and limits, to be extremely material information. *****Banks may not follow Fed advice and release capital distribution plans in advance of March 14. *** 2014 *** 2015 *** 2016 *** 2017 *** 2018 **Dodd-Frank Act Stress Tests *** 2013-2018 *
Central Bank of Brazil The Central Bank of Brazil (, ) is Brazil's central bank, the bank is autonomous in exercising its functions, and its main objective is to achieve stability in the purchasing power of the national currency. It was established on Thursday, 31 Dece ...
(Portuguese: Banco Central do Brasil)


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Bank regulation Banking regulation and supervision refers to a form of financial regulation which subjects banks to certain requirements, restrictions and guidelines, enforced by a financial regulatory authority generally referred to as banking supervisor, wit ...
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Basel III Basel III is the third of three Basel Accords, a framework that sets international standards and minimums for bank capital requirements, Stress test (financial), stress tests, liquidity regulations, and Leverage (finance), leverage, with the goa ...
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Stress test (financial) In finance, a stress test is an analysis or simulation designed to determine the ability of a given financial instrument or financial institution to deal with an economic crisis. Instead of doing financial projection on a "best estimate" basis, a ...
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Systemically important financial institution A systemically important financial institution (SIFI) is a bank, insurance company, or other financial institution whose failure might trigger a financial crisis. They are colloquially referred to as "too big to fail". As the 2008 financial cri ...
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List of systemically important banks Certain large banks are tracked and labelled by several authorities as Systemically Important Financial Institutions (SIFIs), depending on the scale and the degree of influence they hold in global and domestic financial markets. Since 2011, the ...


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