In the 2008 crash, unregulated financial institutions—structured investment vehicles, asset-backed commercial paper issuers, securitisation structures, money market and hedge funds—contributed to ...

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 ...

Between the regional bank crisis and over a year of rate hikes from the Fed, all eyes are on credit conditions right now. As banks tighten their standards on loans, so-called shadow banks are seeing ...

Most financial institutions are regulated. They offer transparency and there are restrictions that prevent them from implementing high-risk investment strategies with your money. However, there are ...

July 15 (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve has proposed new rules that would allow it to gather granular details about banks' exposure to shadow banks, a move that shows how regulators are trying to ...