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An "asset-backed security" is sometimes used as an umbrella term for a type of security backed by a pool of assets, [1] and sometimes for a particular type of that security – one backed by consumer loans [2] or loans, leases or receivables other than real estate. [3]
Asset-backed securities, or ABS, are securities backed by a pool of fundamental assets. Typically, the pool of assets is a small group of loans or debt obligations that cannot be sold to ...
Cash CDOs involve a portfolio of cash assets, such as loans, corporate bonds, asset-backed securities or mortgage-backed securities. Ownership of the assets is transferred to the legal entity (known as a special purpose vehicle) issuing the CDO's tranches. The risk of loss on the assets is divided among tranches in reverse order of seniority.
A mortgage-backed security (MBS) is a type of asset-backed security (an "instrument") which is secured by a mortgage or collection of mortgages. The mortgages are aggregated and sold to a group of individuals (a government agency or investment bank) that securitizes, or packages, the loans together into a security that investors can buy.
Securitization is the financial practice of pooling various types of contractual debt such as residential mortgages, commercial mortgages, auto loans or credit card debt obligations (or other non-debt assets which generate receivables) and selling their related cash flows to third party investors as securities, which may be described as bonds, pass-through securities, or collateralized debt ...
The Securities and Exchange Commission voted 5-0 on Wednesday to issue new regulatory proposals covering the $2 trillion-plus asset-backed securities (ABS) market. Chairman Mary Schapiro calls the ...
The Securities and Exchange Commission is set to release a major new regulatory proposal on Wednesday aimed at reining in the $2.1 trillion asset-backed securities (ABS) market that played such a ...
An example of asset-based loan usage was when the global securitization market shrank to an all-time low after the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc in 2008. [4] Within Europe in 2008, over 710 billion euros worth of bonds were issued, backed largely by asset-based loans, such as home and auto loans.