securitization

/ sɪˌkjʊərɪtaɪˈzeɪʃən /

noun

1. finance the use of such securities as eurobonds to enable investors to lend directly to borrowers with a minimum of risk but without using banks as intermediaries

Example Sentences

In Chile, the brothers last year helped structure a roughly $2 billion securitization that allowed the government to pay electric companies after the government moved to stop electricity prices for consumers from rising in the country.

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“I sat through the Salomon training program and got to hear what this great new securitization model Lewie Ranieri was creating was going to do,” he recalls.

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For a decade now, Devaney had sponsored this conference—called ASF, or the American Securitization Forum, in part because it sounded more dignified than the Association for Subprime Lending.

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“Our original thesis was that the securitization machine was Wall Street’s big profit center and it was going to die,” said Eisman.

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To evaluate the situation, he told his audience, “Just throw your model in the garbage can. The models are all backward-looking. The models don’t have any idea of what this world has become…. For the first time in their lives people in the asset-backed securitization world are actually having to think.”

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