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The size and evolution of the non-bank financial sector
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As a group, OFIs are much less leveraged than MFIs. At the end of 2011, the MFI’s
leverage ratio (defined as the ratio of loans and debt securities to shares and other
equity) stood at 2.8 while it was only 1 for OFIs.
The connectedness of the EU27 banking sector to the NBFIs sector increased sharply and
this increase occurred almost entirely during the financial crisis and post-crisis period.
The NBFIs did not dump any asset class on the market during the financial crisis. They
reduced their holdings of derivatives in 2009 and 2010 after a substantial increase in 2008
.