EBA Stress Test 2016: Some Methodological Issues Raised in the Public Domain

This note is prepared in advance of the regular hearing with the Chair of the Single Supervisory Mechanism on 9 November 2016 in the competent Committee of the European Parliament. It deals specifically with some methodological issues raised in the public domain in the context of the EBA 2016 stress test. A separate briefing on more general aspects of this exercise (“Bank stress testing: stock taking and challenges”) has been published by EGOV on 22 September 2016.