I suggest that the real investors in the stock market scenario are
the large shadow banks who employ traders.
Not exact matches
For example, heightened risk taking by investors and elevated leverage in
large financial institutions and in
shadow banking activities were among the factors that turned a downturn in the U.S. subprime mortgage market into a global financial crisis.
China has been trying to get its unruly financial sector under control, worried that asset bubbles and its enormous unofficial — or «
shadow» —
banking system could threaten its economy, the world's second
largest after the United States».
The turnaround is in part due to policy initiatives such as debt - for - equity swaps that helped the
largest banks deal with rising debt loads, and a widespread crackdown by the government on
shadow banking that has given them an edge over smaller peers.
George Osborne,
shadow chancellor, said that it was «unacceptable» for
banks to be paying
large cash bonuses when they should be defending themselves against future disaster.
That outperformance was not repeatable because the capital of the
banking and
shadow banking industries had gotten so
large that there was no longer any way that they could extract a high return out of the rest of the economy.
Between the perennial risks of the unregulated
shadow banking sector and speculation fueled by central
bank policies to the prospect of a sudden crackdown on whatever the bureaucrats designate as «corruption,» the world's second
largest stock market — and second
largest economy — has been excessively interesting.
As legacy institutional creep
shadows into the crypto ecosystem, professional analysts continue to chirp about welcoming «a more sophisticated exchange presence,» with regard to bitcoin exchanges, as the present players «do not offer the same quality of technology as the
large global exchange groups,» according to
Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
It is under that
larger regulatory
shadow that individual
banks are implementing their own internal practices and policies to manage concentration risk for multifamily and commercial real estate loans.