Such other measures could include, for instance, retained earnings, and reduced bonus payments, new issuances of common equity, suitable strong contingent capital and sales of selected assets at market prices. Other preparatory work for SSM Alongside the Comprehensive Assessment, a lot of other preparatory work is going on.
It is encouraging and promising that, for the time being, there is no such wage-price spiral that would knock us off the 2% target, nor is there any deanchoring of medium-to-long-term inflation expectations from that target. This gives us hope and courage to continue the anti-inflationary policy without raising interest rates so much as to cause a deep recession.