30-06-2019 12:31 via theguardian.com

Corporate debt could be the next sub-prime crisis, warns banking body

Group for central banks says borrowing by firms with low credit scores is growing alarmingly, especially in US and UKCorporate borrowing poses a danger to the global financial system and could trigger a crisis in the same way US sub-prime mortgages sparked the 2008 banking crash, the organisation that represents the world’s central banks has warned.Citing the US and the UK as the worst offenders, the Bank of International Settlements said in its annual health check of the global financial
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