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 ...

In finance, it seems like nearly anything can be traded for profits. Securitization is the process of taking groups of assets, packaging them together, and selling them as interest-earning securities ...

In this alert, we assess the impact of the proposed amendments to the EU securitization framework (which we discussed in detail in our previous article) on EU banks’ ability to reduce capital ...

Bad debts arise when borrowers default on their loans. This is one of the primary risks associated with securitized assets, such as mortgage-backed securities (MBS), as bad debts can stop these ...