KBC remains well-capitalised under 2023 EU-wide EBA stress test
KBC notes the announcements made today by the
Under the base scenario of the stress test, KBC's fully loaded Common Equity Tier-1 (CET1) ratio of 15.30% at year-end 2022 increases by 2.14 percentage points to 17.44% at year-end 2025. Under the adverse scenario, KBC’s fully loaded CET1 ratio would fall by 3.86 percentage points to 11.44%. KBC’s leverage ratio, which stood at 5.29% at year-end 2022, would increase to 6.10% under the base scenario and decrease to 4.30% under the adverse scenario.
Commenting on today’s announcements,
KBC was subject to the 2023 EU-wide stress test conducted by the
KBC notes the announcements made today by the EBA on the EU-wide stress test and acknowledges the outcome of this exercise. The 2023 test does not contain a pass-fail threshold, but is designed instead to be used as an important source of information for the purpose of the supervisory review process (SREP). The results will assist competent authorities in assessing KBC’s ability to meet applicable prudential requirements under stressed scenarios.
The adverse stress test scenario was set by the
An extensive set of Q&As, plus details of the methodology and the baseline and adverse scenarios, are available on the EBA’s website.
This information is provided only for comparison purposes with other banks and should not in any way be directly compared to KBC’s other published information.
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