CCAR
Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review -- the Federal Reserves annual stress test for the largest US bank holding companies. The Fed publishes severely adverse macro scenarios (unemployment, GDP, credit spreads, equity drawdown, real estate prices) and each bank must show that its capital ratios stay above regulatory minimums under those scenarios. Banks that fail CCAR face restrictions on dividends and buybacks. CCAR was launched in 2011 in response to the 2008 financial crisis and remains the most-watched annual measure of large-bank resilience.
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