Cryptocurrencies
Crypto’s Unregulated DeFi Boom Raises Shadow Banking Comparisons
- American’s Allen says DeFi endangers broader financial system
- Biden executive order emphasized support for crypto innovation
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Many of the negative hallmarks of shadow banking -- such as the excessive leverage and opacity that precipitated the 2008 global financial crisis -- have already seeped into the world of decentralized finance.
That’s the warning of Hilary Allen, a professor at American University’s Washington College of Law, in a recently published paper titled “DeFi: Shadow Banking 2.0?”