Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Trepp Releases Updated Capital Adequacy Stress Test Report


NEW YORK, NY – Feb. 6, 2013- Trepp, LLC, the leading provider of information, analytics and technology to the commercial real estate and banking markets, today released its Trepp Capital Adequacy Stress Test Report (T-CAST) of U.S. banks.

Applying the T-CAST model and current regulatory proposals to more than 6,000 banks, a total of 747, or one in eight institutions, failed the stress test without raising additional capital.


 Using third quarter 2012 data, the percentage of banks that failed the T-CAST under a severely adverse economic scenario shrank by seven tenths of a percentage point to 12%.

The failure rate is a slight improvement from the Q2 2012 T-CAST, where12.7%, or 784 of the banks tested, failed.

 For a complete copy of the company’s news release, please contact:

Great Ink Communications
Eric Gerard, Eric Waters
212-741-2977



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