As expected, the four UK banks passed the test - Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC, Barclays and Lloyds Banking Group.
The case of SNS Reaal could become a very important test case for future bank rescues.
True Office also tests students and tracks the test results for the bank and, if requested, regulators.
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The biggest immediate test for the central bank will be how it handles its new foreign-exchange regime.
The Federal Reserve oversees the test which measures how bank capital levels would fare under strained economic conditions.
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As had been expected the results of a bank stress test revealed a capital shortfall that was just under 60 billion euros.
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Markets like to test new central-bank governors until they establish their credentials.
The financial industry remains on guard in anticipation of the release of the U.S. Treasury's bank stress test assumptions planned for later today.
As we head into the final few hours of the U.S. trading session, all three indices are pointing higher after the release of the European bank stress test results.
Nam Theun-2, however, has become a test case for the World Bank in its effort to spur private-sector development even in the least creditworthy countries.
The bank passed stress test with 5.9% capital ratio but apparently did not request any capital returns after its proposed dividend hike was rejected in 2011.
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Government-controlled Ally Financial, the rescued former finance arm of General Motors, was the only bank to fail the test of capital strength.
On Thursday, the Federal Reserve said Citigroup passed its annual checkup, a "stress test" to measure how a bank would fare in a recession.
Scotland also face home fixtures against Pacific Islanders and Australia in this month's Bank of Scotland Corporate autumn Test series.
That would go a long way in boosting confidence in bank stocks as the stress test has been deemed fairly onerous.
So far, Fujitsu's signed on Italy's UniCredit bank, which kicked off a test program late last year.
Each country's national banking regulators carried out a test that simulated what would happen to a bank's finances during a recession where growth falls more than 4 percentage points below EU forecasts.
Assuming it passes that test, the ESM cannot be used for direct bank recapitalisation until a European supervisor is put in charge.
On Tuesday, a new multimillion-pound Left Bank flood scheme was put to the test, helping to save thousands of homes along the Trent from flooding.
As The Economist went to press that was the choice facing HSBC, whose dogged pursuit of Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) has become a litmus test of South Korean attitudes to foreign investment.
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On April 5th in Prague, Mr Obama reiterated a campaign promise to hold talks with Russia to reduce both American and Russian nuclear stockpiles, to push for a global nuclear test ban and to set up an international nuclear fuel bank to help with peaceful nuclear-energy programmes.
The Italian bank's offering was seen as a crucial test of the markets' willingness to invest in euro-zone banks.
It was Mr Brown who, at the start of his decade-long tenure as chancellor, insisted on stripping the Bank of England of its role in supervising banks, a reform that failed its first real test with Northern Rock.
Ally Financial was the only bank to fall below the minimum capital hurdle of a 5% capital buffer required to pass the test.
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This rationale was having trouble passing the collective smell test, so Paulson added that the program would calm customers of money market funds who were beginning to panic and bank depositors who might also panic.
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