The growth in hedge funds, private equity firms and other entities outside the regular banking system is leading one global group to call for stricter oversight of non-bank entities. The so-called ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A global regulatory body tasked by the G20 with devising ways to prevent a repeat of the financial crisis says improving oversight of the "shadow banking" system will be one of ...

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 ...

BEIJING — China's real estate problems have again drawn attention to the world of shadow banking and the risks it poses to the economy. Shadow banking — a term coined in the U.S. in 2007 — refers to ...

In a new report, Deloitte cites no fewer than eight different definitions of a sector that’s anywhere between $10 trillion and $60 trillion in size. Welcome to the amorphous world of “shadow banking.” ...

SHANGHAI/BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - In March 2013, retired chemical company employee Anne Xing, her older sister and their husbands visited a China Everbright Bank branch on the outskirts of ...

Last month José María Roldán, director general of banking regulation at the Bank of Spain and chair of the standards implementation group of the Basle Committee on Banking Supervision, spoke to ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. issued Iran-related sanctions targeting more than 30 individuals and entities it said are part of a "shadow banking" network that has laundered billions of dollars ...

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 ...

Economist Paul McCulley coined the term “shadow banking” in 2007, just over a year before Lehman Brothers collapsed. Soon it became clear that easy credit had helped fuel the subprime mortgage ...