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EU Securitization Deal Seeks to Turn Savings Into Bank Lending
The European Council and Parliament reached a provisional agreement to simplify securitization rules and reduce capital requirements for certain well-structured transactions. The change aims to make it easier for banks to transfer loan risk and recycle balance-sheet capacity, but its effect depends on final rules, investor demand and whether released capacity becomes new lending.
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Mortgage-Backed Securities โ What They Are and How They Blew Up in 2008
Mortgage-backed securities turned home loans into tradeable bonds. They financed the greatest housing boom in U.S. history โ and then the greatest crash. Here's how they work and what went wrong.
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