Discover the world of shadow banking, its role, risks, and how unregulated financial intermediaries impact the global economy.

“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 ...

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 ...

With the stock market at exhilarating heights, any sign of weakness raises fears of another financial crisis. No wonder ...

Investors and economists are warning about a piece of the financial system that could pose a risk that is potentially similar in ways to the housing crash that preceded the financial crisis in 2008.

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 ...

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 ...

Police in eastern China's Zhejiang province have detained Yu Faxiang, the chairman of Hong Kong-listed Haichang Ocean Park, ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The system of so-called "shadow banking" blamed for aggravating the global financial crisis grew to $67 trillion globally last year, a new high, amid calls from the world's top ...

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 ...