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 & ...

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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 ...

Most people invest without ever thinking about how the system behind their money actually works. When you buy into a mutual ...

The looming and evolving threat of cybersecurity and its focus on the financial sector had experts at the Investment Company Institute's 2015 Mutual Funds and Investment Management Conference again ...

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, ...

LONDON, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Financial operators on the fringes of the traditional bank system could be made to hold more capital and mainstream banks forced to limit exposure to risk in the $60 ...

STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (Reuters) - A top U.S. Federal Reserve official on Monday suggested stress tests and certain capital requirements to contain the risks within the non-bank lending sector, while ...

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