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Editorial: Shadow banking sector is too big to be left to its own devices
Regulators need to introduce rules to ensure greater transparency and financial reporting in non-bank system
In this weekend’s Business Post, our team of writers analyse the extraordinary growth of the shadow banking sector, also known as the non-bank system, in Ireland over the past decade.
Since 2011, the amount of non-bank assets domiciled in this country has exploded by almost 250 per cent to just under €3.7 trillion at the end of last year. Most of these assets are held in straightforward equity funds, bond portfolios and low-risk money market ...
