Last year, several large banks—Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic—failed. Financial regulators interrupted the cascade by expanding deposit insurance and establishing a new ...

Meredith Whitney, CEO of Meredith Whitney Advisory Group, returned to CNBC May 14, 2026 with a warning that cuts against the “resilient consumer” refrain from bank earnings calls. Her argument: middle ...

Private credit and the shadow banking system could be the next subprime crisis, lacking regulation and transparency as their size and risk-taking grow. The sector's explosive growth, now rivaling the ...

Economist Paul McCulley coined the term “shadow banking” in 2007, just over a year before Lehman Brothers collapsed. Soon it became clear that easy credit had helped fuel the subprime mortgage ...

Andrew Bailey has made repeated warnings about the risks posed by ‘shadow banking’ - Kirsty Wigglesworth/PA Andrew Bailey has raised the alarm about a potential “shadow banking” crisis that could send ...