System-wide exploratory scenario

Financial stability - financial sector - regulation - stress testing - UK - Bank of England.

(SWES).

The System-wide exploratory scenario is a regulatory stress test for the UK financial sector.

It is designed to improve understanding of:

• The behaviours of banks and non-bank financial institutions during stressed financial market conditions and
• How those behaviours might interact to amplify shocks in UK financial markets that are core to UK financial stability.

See also

• Back test
• Bank of England
• Biennial exploratory scenario
• Black swan
• Financial stability
• Heuristic
• Idiosyncratic stress
• Model
• Non-bank financial intermediaries (NBFIs)
• Regulation
• Reverse stress test
• Scenario analysis
• Sensitivity analysis
• Shock
• Stress
• Stress test

Other resource

• System-wide exploratory scenario - objectives and participating firms - Bank of England