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NHS landlord lines up bankers for £700mn sale
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Nasdaq and Singapore’s SGX to allow simultaneous joint listings
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London house prices fall to lowest in almost two years
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Will AI devour my pension?
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Simulating dynamic balance sheet reactions and macroprudential policy using the 2025 EU-wide stress test
Stress test simulations can enhance our understanding of the interplay between bank actions, the real economy and macroprudential buffers. Leveraging BEAST, the ECB’s workhorse top-down stress test model, this article explores impacts stemming from bank behavioural reactions by simulating them under the adverse scenario of the 2025 EU-wide stress test. The article shows that allowing banks to adjust their balance sheets only improves their capital ratios to a minor extent compared with simulations where they are assumed to keep their balance sheets constant.
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