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   "text": "Because private fund advisers supply liquidity and perform liquidity transformation in the manner of banks, the vulnerabilities their bank like activities create can carry large consequences for financial stability.",
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   "text": "Because the Dodd-Frank Act discouraged banks from growing too large and made bank lending harder, private funds and other alternative lenders filled the resulting void by financing small and medium sized businesses that traditional banks no longer served.",
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   "text": "Private fund advisers in the shadow banking system perform bank-like functions, providing liquidity to clients and to financial markets and engaging in various forms of liquidity transformation, and the vulnerabilities this creates may have large implications for financial stability.",
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   "text": "The opacity of the hedge fund shadow banking system blocks direct measurement of hedge funds' role in the crisis, leaving researchers with indirect measures extracted from existing data rather than primary pre-crisis sources.",
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   "text": "Hedge funds now supply funding to the banking system that may be rapidly withdrawn during a liquidity crisis and supply a substantial share of the sellers' side of the credit default swap market, thereby assuming risks traditionally held by investment banks and insurance companies.",
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   "text": "Post crisis regulation that restrained bank lending, particularly to SMEs, opened a new market that private investment funds moved into, accelerating their involvement in banking functions.",
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   "text": "The rapid evolution of ICOs was enabled in part by the negative factors that had depressed start-up fundraising, namely post crisis banking regulation and a shadow banking sector that only marginally supports new ventures and highly innovative start-ups.",
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