On 17 April 2025, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) updated its webpage on stress testing to note that it has published two stress test scenarios for use by banks and building societies that are not participants in the Bank of England’s concurrent stress testing exercise.

The PRA explains that the scenarios are derived from the 2025 Bank Capital Stress Test scenario, which was published on 24 March 2025 to support concurrent stress testing of the largest UK banks and building societies. The scenarios are intended to serve as a template and severity benchmark for firms to support their own internal capital adequacy assessment process stress testing scenario design processes.

There are links to the scenarios on the stress testing webpage.