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Everybody breathe: That could have gone a whole lot worse. The Federal Reserve unveiled the results of the second part of its annual stress tests on Wednesday and just two banks failed – the U.S. units of Deutsche Bank and Banco Santander had their capital plans rejected. Both are repeat offenders that have had trouble with the exams in the past.
Morgan Stanley got a conditional pass and will have to resubmit its plan by the end of the year, though it's still able to move forward with dividends and share buybacks.
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All 33 banks passed the first half of the tests last week, which assessed how they would manage under a hypothetical downturn.
Goodbye, Hotel California: General Electric's financing unit, GE Capital, has won its bid to shed its "systemically important" label. Industry analysts and some lawmakers previously raised concerns that the Financial Stability Oversight Council hadn't laid out clear enough instructions for how institutions could earn removal of the designation. MetLife is fighting its label in court, but GE took a different tack: shedding billions of dollars in financial assets.
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Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, who heads up the FSOC, said the decision to remove the label proves there's an off ramp.
Rare show of unity: The Senate passed a relief package Wednesday evening to help Puerto Rico restructure its $72 billion debt. The measure, which has been approved by the House, is now headed to the White House for a signature.
Wall Street Journal
Breaking up isn't so hard to do: A study found that more than one-third of people who left their bank in the past year