Date: June 22nd, 2007

Risk moonshine: credit derivatives, Part 3

22 June, 2007 (09:33) | Capital markets, Primer Posts | 3 comments

[Continued from Part 1 and Part 2.]

Unbeknownst to most home borrowers, our residential capital markets have been revolutionized by the takeover of the derivatives, byproducts of securitization.
 

Our derivatives are sneaking up on you

In general, this risk distillation should yield more efficient use of capital, and therefore lower spreads and lower cost to […]