COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Danish banks have sufficient capital to withstand a recession but a few systematically important banks are close to reaching safety buffers, results of a stress test by Denmark’s central bank showed on Thursday.
The stress test showed that the banks have sufficient capital to withstand a “severe recession scenario” the central bank said.
However, in the most severe stress test scenario, the systemic banks would fall about 13 billion Danish crowns ($1.98 billion) short of their buffer requirements, the bank said.
“It is important for banks to ensure during good times that they have a robust surplus relative to the minimum required eligible liabilities (MREL), a sufficiently diversified maturity profile of their MREL issuances and that the issuances have a long maturity,” the bank said.
($1 = 6.5701 Danish crowns)
(Reporting by Jacob Gronholt-PedersenEditing by John Stonestreet and David Goodman)
