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Loans from US banks to non-bank financial institutions grew from $56 billion in 2010 to $1.47 trillion by early 2026. That is a 25-fold increase in 15 years, compounding at roughly 26 percent per year. Non-bank financial institutions now represent 10 percent of total US bank lending. In 2010 they represented less than 1 percent. That is shadow banking. And it's quietly the fastest-growing lending relationship in the US financial system. The context matters. Post-2008 regulations restricted what banks could lend directly. Capital, especially for middle-market corporate borrowers, flowed to private credit funds, BDCs, and other non-bank vehicles. Those vehicles fund themselves partly by borrowing from banks. The result: banks kept the risk. They just wrapped it in a new counterparty. For CFOs and boards this matters in three places. One. If you finance through a private credit fund, your covenant flexibility is often better than a syndicated bank loan. But your counterparty concentration risk is worse. A single lender's liquidity crunch hits you before a syndicate's would. Two. If your business relies on middle-market customers, more of them are financing through non-bank credit than five years ago. When that channel tightens, their orders slow before headlines say anything is wrong. Three. Regulators are catching up. The Bank of England and BIS have both flagged this in 2026. Expect capital treatment for bank exposures to non-banks to change. That shows up in your bank relationships within 12 to 18 months. None of this is a call to avoid private credit. It's a call to know where the risk actually sits before it moves. The largest growth story in US lending isn't a bank. It's the thing bank credit is quietly funding. If you track how the credit system is being rewired in real time, follow along. I post on this every week. Sources: Federal Reserve H.8 release. Forbes on shadow banking growth, May 2026. Bank of England Financial Stability Report 2026. BIS Annual Economic Report 2026.

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