David Dayen

A shady private equity transaction could open up nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations to financial exploitation, and threats to their security and privacy.

As hedge funds, private equity firms, and other asset managers that make up the shadow banking system gradually take over the role of lending, their risks - and the borrowed money they use to make them - are largely shielded from view.

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