Under (the new) framework, the stress being tested against will generally be severe and broad, in order to assess the resilience of major UK banks to 'tail-risk' events," the BoE said in March. HSBC and Standard Chartered are the British lenders most at risk from exposure to Chinese credit , UK Capital Markets analysts have said . The Bank of England ( UK ) is due to release a report into the strength of the UK 's biggest lenders on Wednesday , having carried out three rounds of stress testing . The first round replicated a UK housing price collapse and the second a Chinese recession alongside a Hong Kong property crash . However , Autonomous Research analysts have predicted that the Bank of Scotland and Barclays are likely to be named the weakest banks in the BoE report .
HSBC and Standard Chartered are the British lenders most at risk from exposure to Chinese credit , UK Capital Markets analysts have said . The Bank of England ( UK ) is due to release a report into the strength of the UK 's biggest lenders on Wednesday , having carried out three rounds of stress testing . The first round replicated a UK housing price collapse and the second a Chinese recession alongside a Hong Kong property crash . However , Autonomous Research analysts have predicted that the Bank of Scotland and Barclays are likely to be named the weakest banks in the BoE report .