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Wall Street passes the test on ‘living wills’

Regulators sign off on banks’ plans spelling out how they would fail without needing a taxpayer bailout

Wall Street passes the test on ‘living wills’

The largest Wall Street banks have had their living will bailout prevention plans approved, marking a milestone that further reduces the already-remote possibility that they would be broken up by the government, Ryan Tracy at The Wall Street Journalreports.

US regulators said eight the firms, including Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo, didn’t have “deficiencies” in plans documenting how they could go bankrupt without needing a taxpayer bailout.

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