# Comprehensive Assessment, CA (also mostly in German; more rarely translated as Startprüfung and in jargon also as Bankengesundheitscheck)

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## Definition

At the start of European banking supervision, an inventory of the 124 banks - 24 of them German - in the euro area; this corresponds to about 85 percent of the total assets of all banks in the euro area. The review consists of - a comprehensive risk inventory; this is designed to reveal key risks such as liquidity and leverage; - an in-depth asset valuation, the Asset Quality Review; and - a stress test. - See bancassurance, asset quality review, supervisory mechanism, unified, supervisory college, banking union, banking supervisory committee, conflict of competence, supervisory, macro stress test, regulatory framework, unified, simulation test. - Cf. BaFin Annual Report 2013, pp. 83 ff. (presentation of the CA; BaFin's involvement). Attention: The financial encyclopedia is protected by copyright and may only be used for private purposes without express consent! University Professor Dr. Gerhard Merk, Dipl.rer.pol., Dipl.rer.oec. Professor Dr. Eckehard Krah, Dipl.rer.pol. E-mail address: info@ekrah.com https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Ernst_Merk https://www.jung-stilling-gesellschaft.de/merk/ https://www.gerhardmerk.de/

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