Amid widening protests that have led to thousands of deaths, the US has hit Iran with sweeping sanctions intended to target a ...

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 & ...

Shadow banking is back and bigger than ever. Financial experts compare the private credit boom to pre-2008 risks, with ...

“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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department said Tuesday it is imposing economic sanctions on 50 people and firms across Hong Kong, the United Arab Emirates and the Marshall Islands that have been ...

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 ...

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

The Bank of England is rewarding lenders for their expanding role in financing hedge funds, private credit firms and other “shadow banking” players by cutting their capital demands. This creates a ...

The value of the global ‘shadow banking’ market increased in 2015 to now stand at $34 trillion, according to the Financial Stability Board (FSB). The Global Shadow Banking Monitoring Report 2016, ...