Shadow lending poses significant risks to financial stability, with major regulators highlighting vulnerabilities and the substantial exposure of large and small banks to shadow lenders. First & ...

Most financial institutions are regulated. They offer transparency and there are restrictions that prevent them from implementing high-risk investment strategies with your money. For You: Fidelity ...

Some of Britain's biggest lenders have been accused of failing to come clean about the full extent of loans to so-called 'shadow banks' as fears grow that a recent spate of corporate collapses in the ...

SHANGHAI/BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Zhongzhi Enterprise Group, a former leader of China's shadow banking sector that declared insolvency last year, used aggressive and potentially illegal sales ...

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 ...

For all the investor concerns about the diminishing dominance of the US dollar, growth in one big subsection of the global financial system highlights the pervasive influence of the currency, ...