In its Annual Economic Report, the Bank for International Settlements warns that a cluster of converging vulnerabilities leaves the global economy dangerously exposed, and urges policymakers to act before adjustments become costlier. The report's focus on sovereign-bond fragility and non-bank finance lands squarely on Luxembourg, the world's second-largest fund domicile.
The European Central Bank is warning that European banks underestimate their exposure to private credit and has doubled the number of lenders under scrutiny. The funds at the heart of the concern are largely domiciled in Luxembourg.
The European Central Bank has expanded a probe into euro-area banks' exposure to private credit to more than 20 lenders, warning that the asset class is opaque and concentrated. The scrutiny lands close to home in Luxembourg, the EU's largest fund domicile and base for hundreds of billions of euros of private-debt vehicles.