Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2013

Keywords

shadow banking, disintermediation, systemic risk, financial regulation, financial markets, financial institutions

Abstract

This article examines how the role of transactional lawyers should change in the new world of shadow banking. Although transactional lawyers should consider the potential systemic consequences of their client's actions, their actions should be tempered by their primary duties to the client and by their responsibilities to the l,egal system more broadly.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Risk management, Banks and banking, Financial institutions, Money market, Risk assessment, Public finance

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