By Max Colchester and Margot Patrick
The Bank of England on Tuesday said all but one of the U.K.'s
major banks passed a balance sheet health check.
The central bank's Prudential Regulation Authority put eight
U.K. lenders through a hypothetical three-year economic collapse.
To pass the test banks had to maintain a 4.5% ratio of capital to
risk adjusted assets throughout the period.
Only one bank, the Co-operative Bank, needed to submit a revised
plan to strengthen its balance sheet. Part state-owned Royal Bank
of Scotland Group PLC and Lloyds Banking Group PLC only narrowly
passed the test. Both need to improve their capital positions but
have already put in place plans to do so, the PRA said.
Write to Max Colchester at max.colchester@wsj.com and Margot
Patrick at margot.patrick@wsj.com
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