Brussels Edition: Banks Under Stress

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Results will be published today of the EU’s latest stress test to show how resilient the bloc’s large banks would be in a severe economic downturn. While Deutsche Bank and other German lenders face intense competition at home, and their Italian counterparts are caught up in a standoff between the country’s populist government and EU authorities, we hear all banks are poised to get a more or less clean bill of health and be seen to have requisite capital even in the most adverse scenario.