shadow banking system

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  Five Years After the Crisis, Can We Prevent the Next One?

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  May 13, 2013

  The U.S. has made progress, but measures like money-market fund regulation are needed to avert future financial instability, a Fed governor says.

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  Time to Consider Alternatives to Money-Market Funds

  By Brian Schreiner  |  September 25, 2012

  They’ve been go-to funds for decades, but in recent years just about everything in the investment world has changed and money funds are no exception.

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  Bernanke Offers No QE3 Salve, Talks Up Regulatory Role

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  April 9, 2012

  The Fed chairman said Monday night that money market funds and asset-backed securities were aspects of a shadow banking system that created “potential channels for the propagation of shocks through the financial system and the economy.”

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  Regulators Casting Light on Shadow Banks

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  February 7, 2012

  Concerns that shadow banks have no backstop in case of crisis and offer opportunities to engage in risky, if not illegal behavior, are pushing regulators for the G20 to look more closely at such institutions.