The EBA’s exercise set their total capital needs at € billion, more than 70 per cent of which has been covered by means of privately subscribed capital increases and self-financing. The reduction of risk-weighted assets as a result of more widespread use of internal models, carefully evaluated by the supervisory  BIS central bankers’ speeches  3  authorities, has also contributed.
We examined the measures proposed by the banks with the specific aim of preventing any significant contraction in lending to the economy.