Federal Chairman Ben Bernanke said Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continue to remain under pressure and that the government must look at new methods to provide guarantees on mortgages. Speaking via ...

You have probably heard of securitization. It’s a way of turning non-financial assets into liquid securities that investors can buy and sell. Despite its role in the market crash of 2008 and ...

Asset securitization takes place when loans are combined into a pool, and then claims on the cash flows from the loans are sold to investors. In its simplest form, the three main parties associated ...

Lehman Brothers lives in U.S. reverse mortgage history. The Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA) home equity conversion mortgage (HECM) has had Fannie Mae’s deep pockets as a secondary market source ...

IN the quest for effective measures, more specifically new products, to promote the capital market, the advocates appear to have overlooked the potential of Securitization. We have Republic Act (RA) ...

Securitization has gotten a bad reputation lately. But the securitization process—taking debt and pooling it into a derivative whose value is based on the underlying assets—was meant to reduce risk.

The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has published a Policy Statement setting out the final rules governing the FCA's authority to impose sanctions on persons for breaching requirements imposed under ...

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