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The Federal Reserve has set a Jan. 7 deadline for the largest banks to prove they have the capital to withstand another financial crisis. Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citibank and 16 others will have to file so-called "stress test" documentation by then.

Europe's stress tests of major banks may have understated some banks' holdings of potentially risky government debt, The Wall Street Journal said. Some banks excluded certain bonds, and some reduced the sums disclosed to account for short positions. As a result, banks including Barclays PLC...

Although Wall Street anxiously awaited the results of bank stress tests in Europe, the real news is elsewhere: the improving economic conditions across Europe. Can the U.S. learn a lesson from Germany and France?

A clear majority of the 91 EU banks have passed stress tests conducted by regulators - but Germany's nationalized lender Hypo Real Estate Holding AG failed. It was the only German bank to fail the European stress test. Officials said Friday that HRE's tier 1 capital ratio would fall under 6...

After banks stocks took a beating when the EU first announced it would stress-test the region's banks, the sector has recovered and then some. This could be good news, but more likely it means investors will be surprised to the downside.

European regulators will give details of three different scenarios when they publish the results of their stress tests on European banks, Bloomberg News reported. Banks will give their estimated Tier 1 capital ratios under a benchmark for 2011, an adverse scenario and a third test that includes...

Should regulators subject bank balance sheets to further stress tests? That's the recommendation of the panel charged with overseeing the administration of the Treasury Department's bailout fund in a report to be presented to Congress today. Critics of the tests have long complained they weren't...

The Wall Street Journal has published an exclusive report looking at possible losses at small and medium-sized banks that could result from trouble in their real estate portfolios. The total of the red ink could hit $200 billion. That may leave the government holding another big bag of bank stock...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke went back to the scene of the crime to declare the bank stress tests a success. The crime in question took place almost 99 years ago. It was on Jekyll Island, GA that a small group of bankers met to conceive a way to stabilize the currency in the wake of the...

On Thursday, the federal government released the results of the stress tests that it recently ran on 19 banks. While many banks were essentially given a pass, at least seven will need to raise additional funds if they hope to weather a worst-case economic scenario. Bank of America (BAC), with a...