Deutsche Bank, SocGen, RBS Face Pressure to Boost Capital
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Deutsche Bank AG, Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, Societe Generale SA and UniCredit SpA may face pressure from investors to boost capital after scraping through Europe’s banking stress tests.
Deutsche Bank, Germany’s largest bank, had a core Tier 1 capital ratio of 6.5 percent under the test’s adverse scenario. While that surpassed the 5 percent fail rate, it ranked eighth among the 12 German banks that participated and 57th overall among the 90 banks tested. Edinburgh-based RBS had a ratio of