The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned nearly 50 entities connected with so-called “shadow banking” networks that help Iran’s military evade U.S. sanctions and to ...

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has launched a public consultation on draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) detailing the criteria for identifying shadow banking entities. Entities that ...

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In the 2008 crash, unregulated financial institutions—structured investment vehicles, asset-backed commercial paper issuers, securitisation structures, money ma ...

A report issued by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows that so-called "shadow banks" still hold more obligations than regular banks, representing a continuing threat to the financial system.

Signs of the subprime mortgage crisis were obvious long before the 2008 meltdown. A few observers recognized the danger and shared their concerns, but most dismissed the threats, arguing that a deep, ...

Many financial institutions that act like banks are not supervised like banks 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 ...

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 ...

Simply sign up to the Capital markets myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. They are two of the most starkly contrasting trends in the world of finance. The banking system, as measured by ...