Basically, shadow banking is an original kind of business organization, or better a set of institutions and markets, finalized to disinvest fixed assets and convey them to the financial markets. Nowadays, tackling the subject means penetrating the hard core of financialization. Shadow banking...

This paper examines the ongoing integration of banks and markets through the blurring of boundaries between them. It considers how this integration affects the raison d'etre of banks and its implications for the future evolution of banks, systemic risk and prudential regulation. Shadow banks, PE...

This paper reviews the literature on how the evolution of banks and markets is blurring the distinction between them, and the implications of this for post-crisis regulation of banks and markets. Unanswered research questions are identified

Owing to the disruptive events in the shadow banking system during the global financial crisis, policymakers and regulators have sought to strengthen the monitoring framework and to identify any remaining regulatory gaps. In accordance with its mandate, the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB)...

For emerging market regulators, shadow banking represents an activity which they must control. For businessmen in economies like Russia, Argentina, Saudi Arabia and Mexico, shadow banking represents an important business opportunity. By extending credit to risky (but promising) activities...

The current financial crisis has highlighted the growing importance of the 'shadow banking system,' which grew out of the securitization of assets and the integration of banking with capital market developments. This trend has been most pronounced in the United States, but it has had a profound...

This paper studies the specificities of the regulation of shadow banking in the EU. It argues that the idiosyncratic features of the EU shadow banking sector call for a different (or indigenized) regulatory approach from that of the U.S. It highlights striking differences between the EU and the...

Post-crisis regulations apply stricter liquidity rules to both money market funds (MMFs) and banks, requiring MMFs to do more overnight lending and banks to borrow longer-term. MMFs and banks resolve this dilemma by developing a "bundling" strategy across overnight and longer-term markets. In...