CS Axa

By Frances Robinson 

BRUSSELS-- Axa Bank Europe, the Belgian unit of French insurer Axa S.A. received a capital injection of EUR225 million ($284 million) last month, a spokesman for the Belgian unit confirmed Friday.

Spokesman Wim Pauwels declined to comment further, but said the increase took place "during the course of the month of September."

On Sunday, the European Central Bank and regulators will reveal stress tests into the resilience levels of European banks. Supervisors have been checking how valuable the assets are on banks' balance sheets, how much of that value those assets--ranging from mortgages, to bond investments and corporate loans--would lose amid simulated financial and economic shocks.

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