European Stress Tests

In addition to the national stress tests conducted by the Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) as a rule conducts a pan-European insurance stress test every three years, which also includes Austrian insurance undertakings.

The stress tests are conducted in close cooperation with the national supervisory authorities. Information about the stress tests conducted by EIOPA jointly with the national supervisory authorities may be found under the following link: EIOPA – Insurance stress test.

The FMA would like to point out that stress test results should be interpreted in view of the assumptions made. A comparison of the results between individual countries is only possible to a limited extent due to prevailing country-specific circumstances.