ECB Haggles on Pain to Inflict in Bank Health Check
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European officials are about to decide how much pain their banks should be able to take.
European Central Bank and European Union regulators will hold conference calls this week to agree on scenarios to test lenders’ resilience to falling economic output, slumping asset prices and rising interest rates, according to two people with knowledge of the talks. They declined to be identified because the discussions are private.