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 ...

Figure closed a $300 million prefunded securitization for Figure Connect loans, with investors committing capital before origination.

You have probably heard of securitization. It’s a way of turning non-financial assets into liquid securities that investors can buy and sell. Despite its role in the market crash of 2008 and ...

When you borrow money to buy a home, your loan is almost always “securitized.” Pope Francis recently railed against complex financial securities. Although he did not condemn all securitization, he ...

Securitization has gotten a bad reputation lately. But the securitization process—taking debt and pooling it into a derivative whose value is based on the underlying assets—was meant to reduce risk.

Articles written by HousingWire Staff are non-bylined, and typically involve press release coverage and aggregation of coverage appearing elsewhere. So who put all these together? Our entire staff ...

IN the quest for effective measures, more specifically new products, to promote the capital market, the advocates appear to have overlooked the potential of Securitization. We have Republic Act (RA) ...

financial crisis is starting to cut a larger profile in Washington as Congress overhauls Wall Street regulations. For years, the securitization industry was a darling of financial markets and was ...

These notes will be a series of short articles on “securitization” as a form of financing. The purpose is to familiarize my readers with this manner of raising funds through a “securitization ...