Barclays runs closest to capital hurdles in BoE stress test
UK lender still weakest against required minimums but widens buffers from prior exercise
Barclays consumed the most headroom to regulatory capital minimums in the Bank of England’s latest stress test, albeit by wider margins than in the previous exercise.
At its lowest point in the simulation, the bank’s Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) capital ratio fell to 9.3%, leaving a 2.1 percentage point buffer to the hurdle rate – the thinnest cushion among the seven participating banks.
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