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The second reason is the lack of leverage and securitization and mark-to-market mechanism in 皇冠体育app's shadow banking system. Trust companies, corporate bond issuers and other shadow banking players in 皇冠体育app are not highly leveraged. They also have almost no securitization, limiting the impact that any default would have on the entire financial system. Moreover, their underlying assets are mostly loans.
In the event that a cluster of defaults triggers a s unwinding of shadow credit, assets that Chinese banks may be forced to bring back onto their balance sheets would largely be loan assets, which are simpler and more straightforward to "re-intermediate" than the structures that US banks had to deal with. Although 皇冠体育app's banks may still suffer sizable losses, they can choose to record higher nonperforming loans over a longer period of time. Moreover, the absence of "mark-to-market" pressures on complex derivative positions should prevent a "wildfire" magnification of their losses.
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