Two must-read reports — the FDIC Bank Quarterly and the Alvarez & Marsal deregulation primer — reveal how regulatory rollback unleashed a surge in bank lending to non-banks.

Private credit and the shadow banking system could be the next subprime crisis, lacking regulation and transparency as their size and risk-taking grow. The sector's explosive growth, now rivaling the ...

Last year, several large banks—Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic—failed. Financial regulators interrupted the cascade by expanding deposit insurance and establishing a new ...

LONDON, Feb & (Reuters) - The shadow banking system makes up 25 to 30 percent of the total financial system, according to the Financial Stability Board (FSB), a regulatory task force for the world's ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. issued Iran-related sanctions targeting more than 30 individuals and entities it said are part of a "shadow banking" network that has laundered billions of dollars ...

It was inevitable really. After all, the banking crash of 2008 was 17 years ago and many of the main actors have left the stage. The new generation cannot be expected to pay heed to the lessons from ...

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A shockwave is looming in China’s multi-trillion dollar “shadow banking” system, with an unprecedented default only days away on a $500 million investment product sold to hundreds of people. Staff at ...

The present banking system is very fragile in some sense, and it is something to be concerned about, according to the legendary investor Warren Buffett. When asked during an interview with CNBC News ...

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and acts like a duck, then it is a duck—or so the saying goes. But what about an institution that looks like a bank and acts like a bank? Often it is not a ...