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Greensill implosion exposes risks of shadow banking – The Australian Financial Review

Revolutions in finance have a nasty way of ending badly, especially when they happen at breakneck speed. The capacity of shadow banking to spring more dangerous…

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In banking that rate of expansion tends to point to excessive risk-taking and a poor-quality loan book. And certainly the Australian parent felt balance sheet strain. In 2016 and 2017, its liabilities exceeded its assets, according to a report by Scope rating agency. Yet Lex Greensill pulled off an astonishing coup by persuading first private equity group General Atlantic to put in $US250 million of fresh capital, and then the SoftBank Vision Fund of Japanese entrepreneur Masayoshi Son to stump…

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