The typical payday loan is for less than $500, has a maturity of two weeks, is secured by the borrower's post-dated check or debit authorization, and carries a compound annual rate of interest that can easily exceed 10,000 percent. If you imagined the terms of illegal loan sharking you may not...

Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs) are now the largest nonbank lender in the U.S. This added source of financing, which lies outside the purview of banking regulation, is part of the “shadow banking system.” Lack of transparency and regulatory oversight of CLOs have given rise to the...