shadow bank
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.36 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Regulators have said there was an entire shadow bank within the official BCCI with separate books."
- "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”."
- "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."
Etymology
From shadow banking system.