What Is Securitization?: And How Did It Pop the Subprime Loan Bubble?
FT Press
Publication date: February 2010
ISBN: 9780137053292
Digital Book format: PDF (Adobe DRM)
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To fully understand the subprime mortgage implosion, you need to know how subprime mortgages were financed. Fundamentally, loans either are financed directly by financial institutions such as commercial banks and thrift institutions or are repackaged as bonds (that is, securitized) and sold to investors, who keep or trade them. The overwhelming majority of subprime loans were securitized....
If you liked this Element, read more from Mark Zandi, including Financial Shock: Global Panic and Government Bailouts--How We Got Here and What Must Be Done to Fix It (ISBN: 9780137016631).
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