The EU-wide stress test, carried out across 90 banks in 21 countries, seeks to assess the resilience of European banks to severe shocks and their specific solvency to hypothetical stress events under certain restrictive conditions.

The 2011 EU-wide stress test has been conducted by the European Banking Authority (EBA) in cooperation with national authorities, the European Central Bank (ECB), the European Commission (EC) and the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB). From Denmark Danmarks Nationalbank and the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority participated as national authorities.

General results for Danish banks

• Major Danish banks show strong resilience in EU stress test

Individual test results

• Danske Bank (pdf)
• Jyske Bank (pdf) 
• Nykredit (pdf)
• Sydbank  (pdf)

Links

• Danske Bank
• Jyske Bank
• Nykredit
• Sydbank 

• Press release from The Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs 
• Press release from the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority
• Danmarks Nationalbank