130 banks in Europe are being put to the test. The ECB's stress test is designed to find out how banks would deal with a hypothetical crisis. Do they have enough equity capital to survive? Made in Germany explains how the stress test works and what it's supposedly good for.

Report by Anna Wills and Andreas Neuhaus

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