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Dec 2015
5m 33s

UK banks pass post-crisis stress tests

Financial Times
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Seven of the UK's big banks have passed the Bank of England's latest stress tests, which are designed to assess their ability to withstand a crisis - but only just. Patrick Jenkins discusses the results with Caroline Binham, FT financial regulation correspondent and Stephen Hall from KPMG.

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