Big U.S. banks sailed through the Federal Reserve's annual health check on Wednesday, in a vote of confidence for a sector still recovering from turmoil earlier this year and facing an uncertain economic outlook.
, have enough capital to weather a severe economic slump, paving the way for them to issue share buybacks and dividends.
Among the top performers were Charles Schwab Corp. and Deutsche Bank's U.S. operations, while regional lenders Citizens Financial Corp. and U.S. Bancorp were the laggards of the pack. The average capital ratio - a measure of the cushion banks have to absorb potential losses - for the country's eight "globally systemically important banks" stood at 10.9%, up slightly from last year, according to a Reuters analysis.Banks' commercial real estate portfolios performed, showing $65 billion in losses or 8.8% of average loan losses, slightly down on last year's 9.8%, the Fed said.
Lenders will now be allowed to return excess capital to shareholders, although analysts expect payouts to be slightly lower this year due to economic uncertainty and impending new capital rules.
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