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 & ...

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

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 ...

Most people invest without ever thinking about how the system behind their money actually works. When you buy into a mutual fund, ETF, or closed-end fund, you are relying on investment companies 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 ...

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 ...

LONDON, Aug 30 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Curbing leverage in opaque areas of finance sounds like a good idea. The Financial Stability Board of global regulators reckons it can make markets safer by ...

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 ...

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 ...