Bank Stress Tests Methodology Used in the Euro Area

The current financial crisis imposed farms intervetions of the state and banking authorities especially in economically deve-loped areas. Difficulties of american finan-cial system were moved rapidly around the world, most affected was euro area whose banking system is closely related to the american with an exposure of 60%. Therefore the ECB were taken immediately measures to rescue the financial system and prevention for such situation is not repeated in future. One of the most important tools developed is the “stress test” which check, especially, european banks` ability with border activity to face a new crisis. Test methodology is based on the comparative analysis of the banks evolution simulating two scenarios. Construction of basic scenario was done on statistics collected by the end of 2010. Based on these were issued medium-term forecasts on macroeconomic develop-ments for the euro area and EU. Adverse scenario is built in order to capture macro-economic developments worldwide. The reasoning takes into account interactions between world economies which transfers at global level both incentives and negative aspects. The results obtained revealed the gradual consolidation of the banking system.