FSB refines shadow banking definition with new ‘activity-based’ measure

Measure aims to pick out only those non-banks that present stability threats

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The BIS

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has further refined its definition of shadow banking, finding the sector continued to grow throughout 2014 in its latest global monitoring report, published today (November 12).

Each year, the FSB publishes a broad measure of all non-banks, including pension funds, insurance companies and "other financial intermediaries", and a more selective measure that aims to pick out only those non-banks that conduct some form of credit intermediation. The FSB defines

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