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Are UK's countercyclical capital buffers high?

@cetier1
Dec 01, 2018
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The Bank of England stress test results are out. A comprehensive report covering this exercise can be found here. 

The report surprised me a bit, because its repeatedly mentions the countercyclical capital buffer requirement. The BOE decided to keep at 1 percent. Hardly newsworthy, that percentage was announced a year ago. Still, the report mentions "cou…

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