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Europe’s Banks Should Face 3% Minimum Leverage Ratio, EBA Says
By John Glover
August 3, 2016, Bloomberg
European banks should have at least 3 cents of capital for every euro of assets they hold, the European Banking Authority recommended.
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E.U. Banking Watchdog Backs Keeping Broad Capital Measure Unchanged
By Huw Jones
August 3, 2016, Reuters
The European Union’s banking watchdog has backed maintaining a broad capital adequacy measure known as the leverage ratio unchanged at the current level …
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Italy’s Shaky Bank-Rescue Plan
By Simon Nixon
August 3, 2016, The Wall Street Journal
The best that can be said for Italy’s latest plan to rescue its third-largest bank is that it might just …
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BOE Reassures E.U. Banks on Post-Brexit Restructuring
By Laura Noonan, Martin Arnold, and James Shotter
July 31, 2016, Financial Times
British regulators have told at least one major E.U. bank that it will not be forced to …
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Stress Tests Find Some Big European Banks Wanting
By Chad Bray
July 29, 2016, The New York Times
European regulators announced on Friday that new stress tests found that a handful of the region’s biggest banks would struggle …
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E.U. Stress Tests to Show Scale of Italy’s Banking Woes
By Huw Jones and Valentina Za
July 27, 2016, Reuters
Italy’s Monte dei Paschi is once again expected to be among the banks that fare worst in E.U. stress tests, …
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Italy’s NPL Crisis Demands a Radical Rethink
By Louise Bowman
July 18, 2016, Euromoney
Capital shortfalls at Italy’s banks can only be fixed with state intervention. The NPL crisis could, however, be fixed if they are left …
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EBA Stress Test ‘Obsolete’ After Brexit Vote
By Philip Alexander
June 28, 2016, Risk
Stress-testing experts are calling on European bank regulators to rethink their approach to setting adverse scenarios in future tests, after the scenarios for …
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