Securitization and Parties Involved in it

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Abhijeet S
INTRODUCTION


Securitization is the process of pooling and packaging financial assets, usually relatively illiquid, into liquid marketable securities.


Securitization allows an entity to assign (i.e. sell) its interest in a pool of financial assets (and the underlying security) to other entities.



PARTIES INVOLVED

 The initial owner of the asset (the originator or sponsor) who has a loan agreement with the borrowers


 The issuer of debt instruments who also is the SPVs


 The investment bankers, who assist in structuring the transaction and who underwrite or place the securities for a fee


 The rating agencies, who assess credit quality of certain type of securities and assign a credit rating


 The credit enhancer, possibly a bank, surety company or insurer, who provides credit support through a letter of credit, guarantee etc



 The servicer, usually the originator, who collects payments due on the underlying assets and after retaining a servicing fee, pays them over to the security holders


 The trustee, who deals with issuer, credit enhancer and servicer on behalf of the security holders


 The legal counsel, who participates in the structuring of the transaction


 The swap counter party, who provides interest rate / currency swap
 
Meaning and Definition

Securitization is the process of taking an illiquid asset, or group of assets, and through financial engineering, transforming them into a security. A typical example of securitization is a mortgage-backed security (MBS), which is a type of asset-backed security that is secured by a collection of mortgages.

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