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Shadow Banking Stealth Mutation: The Acronyms for the Next Financial Crisis

Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2014 Feb 21, 2014 - 03:15 AM GMT

By: Gordon_T_Long

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According to the latest study by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) the unregulated $72 Trillion Global Shadow Banking System is now larger than the global regulated banking system. How could an unregulated and opaque industry, which is larger than the entire world's GDP, operate with such little attention? Even the FSB is not a government entity and operates under the auspices of an entity with a highly checkered and mysterious background - The Bank of International Settlements in Basel Switzerland.


The FSB has had only two Chairmen since its inception who were able to see the full extent of the operations of this global industry: Mario Draghi who is now head of the European Central Bank (ECB) and Mark Carney who is now the Governor of the Bank of England (BOE). Ben Bernanke's wrote academically on the subject before being quickly catapulted to the Chairmanship of the Federal Reserve. Sounds like these are important qualifications if you are to run the world's financial apparatus.

The Acronyms for the Next Financial Crisis

A tipping point for the 2008 Financial Crisis was short term lending problems associated with Asset Backed Commercial Paper (ABCP) liquidity which was used to fund the Shadow Banks Structures Investment Vehicles (SIVs). It was this short term funding that was used to buy what is after the fact now euphemistically referred to as 'toxic waste' (CDOs et al).

Dodd-Frank has done absolutely nothing to change any of this despite the CCP (Central Counter Party) exchange, if it is ever implemented. What has changed is that the Shadow Banking System by necessity, and with policy makers turning a blind eyed, morphed into something far more dangerous.

Same Game, New Acronyms

The New Shadow Banking Structure

The New Shadow Banking Structure

Conclusions

The Shadow Banking System is almost completely unregulated.

  1. How can a $72 Trillion banking function which is larger than the highly regulated Banking System go unregulated?
  2. How can a $700 Trillion OTC, Off-Balance Sheet, Off-Shore, Unregulated SWAPS market go unregulated?

The global GDP is smaller than the Shadow Banking System and less than 10% of the SWAPS market.

Until we can answer these questions we should conclude that risk is mispriced and price discovery for global financial markets is obscured!

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