However, these systems typically lack the ability to handle non-interest rate macro variables for
stress testing purposes or determine the loss component on various loan portfolios under different economic scenarios.
The Reserve Bank's framework for
stress testing involves a significant role for participant banks in assessing the impact of the stress scenario.
Caption: FIGURE 2: Bland-Altman plot of METs estimated from history versus measured by exercise cardiac
stress testing.
Since
stress testing is "a tool to evaluate the potential effects of specified changes in risk factors on a bank's financial position under a severe but plausible scenario," banks must develop "sound assumptions generally depicting events or scenarios that may result in significant losses and to assess the impact of these scenarios on the bank's performance or capital and liquidity positions," said the BSP.
Based on the results of
stress testing, the central bank explained banks could adopt proactive measures such as the implementation of capital build up initiatives or enhancement of risk management practices all aimed at improving their resilience in times of actual crisis.
Macro
stress testing is a major part of these quantitative tools.
The global cardiopulmonary
stress testing devices market report provides market size estimates (Revenue USD million - 2013 to 2020) for key market segments based on the type of cardiac
stress testing monitors used (CPET/CPEx, desktop and portable CPET, pulse oximeter, SPECT/SPET, ECG, and stress blood pressure monitors) and forecasts growth trends (CAGR% - 2016 to 2020).
(b) To highlight the specificities of risk exposures in Islamic financial institution and how they need to be captured in
stress testing exercise; and
(2) Reliance on a single scenario violates good practice advice on
stress testing and even common sense (see Finger 2008).
For patients unable to exercise, doctors may perform pharmacologic nuclear
stress testing, using medications to simulate exercise's cardiac effects.
Eight major UK banks and building societies have participated in the first concurrent
stress testing exercise of the UK banking system, the results of which Britain's central bank the Bank of England revealed on Tuesday.
The 2014 UK
stress testing exercise will be built on the EU-wide stress test, which was announced in January this year by the European Banking Authority (EBA).