ATHENS—Greece’s biggest banks received a clean bill of health from Europe’s regulators on Saturday, an important step toward the completion of an eight-year bailout program that has strained the country’s economy. The “stress tests” carried out by the European Central Bank on National Bank of Greece SA, Alpha Bank AE, Eurobank Ergasias SA and Piraeus Bank SA showed that the lenders had sufficient capital to cushion them against a hypothetical severe economic downturn.

Source: Wall Street Journal May 05, 2018 11:15 UTC