Supervisory Capital Assessment Program

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Supervisory Capital Assessment Program

A program in the United States that conducted assessments of the capital adequacy of bank holding companies under two different scenarios. Bank holding companies in the United States with assets worth more than $100 billion were tested in 2009. The first scenario assumed generally accepted macroeconomic conditions for 2009 and 2010, while the second made pessimistic assumptions. The program was intended to determine banks' likelihood of failure in the event of a financial crisis.

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Box 1 The Supervisory Capital Assessment Program (SCAP) 2009 and the EU-wide stress test 2010 The Supervisory Capital Assessment Program 2009 (SCAP) In spring 2009, the US authorities conducted a stress test of the 19 largest US bank holding companies.

Norges Bank's stress test in Financial Stability 2/10 compared with banks' projections