Since the financial crash of 2008, large volumes of funding are now flowing through entities whose balance sheets are opaque, ...

LONDON, Dec 16 (Reuters) - The non-bank ‌financial sector's share of global assets ‌grew to 51%, or $256.8 trillion, last year and expanded at double the rate of the traditional banking industry, the ...

The shadow banking industry has grown to about $67 trillion, $6 trillion bigger than previously thought, leading global regulators to seek more oversight of financial transactions that fall outside ...

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 ...

“Shadow banking” now accounts for $250 trillion, or 49% of the world’s financial assets, according to the Financial Stability Board. Hedge funds manage 15 times as many assets combined as they did in ...

There’s a ton of talk these days among economists and investors about shadow banking in China. The whole subject might seem a confusing mess of econo-babble taking place in a far-away country. But ...

Andreas Dombret, one of six members of the Bundesbank’s executive board, has reinforced the perception that the so-called shadow banking system is at the forefront of European regulators’ concerns in ...

The shadow banking sector had extended more than 30 trillion yuan in credit — that’s $4.9 trillion, or roughly 60 percent of the country’s gross domestic product — as of June 30, 2013, according to ...