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 ...

Parliament did ease this blow by clarifying there would be no duplication of sanctions, meaning each member state can set its ...

Over the past couple of weeks, the implosion of a couple of internal hedge funds at Bear Stearns (NYSE:BSC) has sent small ripples through a somewhat complacent market. The hedge funds' problems were ...

Kai Ryssdal: J.P. Morgan Chase reported quarterly profits today. Much like Goldman Sachs earlier this week, it made a boatload of money. More than $2 billion April through June. J.P. Morgan’s been ...

Growth of a Market: Over the last 20 years securitization has grown from a specialized and slightly esoteric funding vehicle for government-sponsored housing agencies to a primary mode of funding used ...

Egypt is studying securitizing up to 25 percent of its USD revenue and offering securitized bonds to investment banks and international investors. The move is meant to raise between $1.4 billion and ...

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.

Financing real estate investment has in recent times become more problematic as a result of the complex interaction of several factors. Not least among these are excessively high interest rates ...