shadow bank

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English

Etymology

From shadow banking system.

Noun

shadow bank (plural shadow banks)

  1. (banking, derogatory) An entity that illegally performs banking functions.
    • 1991 July 23, “A Slam Heard 'Round the World; Closing of BCCI's Doors Leaves...”, in Washington Post:
      Regulators have said there was an entire shadow bank within the official BCCI with separate books.
  2. (banking, economics, finance) An entity not subject to banking regulation that performs banking functions.
    • 2018 October 7, Shane Hickey, “Shadow banks, trade wars, Trump … clouds gather over the IMF’s paradise”, in The Observer‎:
      The rise of unregulated “shadow banks” and the lack of restrictions on insurers and asset managers were pinpointed as concerns – as was the growth of global banks to a scale larger than 2008 and the fear that they are again “too big to fail”.
    • 2020, Jon Nævdal Johansson, Macroprudential Policy Reviewed: An Economic Assessment of Implemented Macroprudential Policy Regimes Post the Great Recession, Department of Economics, University of Oslo, November 2020
      The results of the experiment show that the broad policy regime performs best, with the narrow Basel III regime actually working more procyclical than the standard regime when hit with a hypothetical shock. This is because of credit is forced through the shadow-bank channel when the standard bank channel is faced with countercyclical regulation.

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