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Mortgage-Backed Securities and the Financial Crisis of 2008: a Post Mortem Juan Ospina , Harald Uhlig We examine the payo performance, up to the end of 2013, of non-agency residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), issued up to 2008.
As a percentage of all mortgage-backed securities, private securitization grew from 23 percent in 2003 to 56 percent in 2006. The driving force behind the crisis was the private sector
· The type of securities blamed for triggering a credit crisis in the U.S. a decade ago could now be part of the solution in Canada, where a cooling housing market is a key risk to its $1.7 trillion.
To summarise, securitisation is the act of turning loans into bonds. The earliest securitisations were mortgage-backed securities, the thinking being the last thing people would stop paying is their mortgage, hence making this low risk. Tranches. A CDO is divided into tranches containing securities with varying degrees of risk.
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Asset-Backed Securities. Background: asset-backed securities (abs) are created by buying and bundling loans – such as residential mortgage loans, commercial loans or student loans – and creating securities backed by those assets, which are then sold to investors. Often, a bundle of loans is divided into separate securities with different levels of risk and returns.
It may be good to emphasize that we only examine non-agency residential mortgage backed securities. Agency-backed securities were backed implicitly by the tax payer and explictly by programs of the Federal Reserve Bank, and therefore their role in the crisis.