Date: August 24th, 2007

To mark it to market: Part 4, reverberations

24 August, 2007 (09:26) | Markets, Subprime, US News | No comments

[Continued from Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3]
 

The balls keep clacking, borrower to servicer to lender to trustee to security holder
 
In the previous post we reached the point where the trustee enters:
 

Enter the trustee
 
A trustee is necessary because securitization creates a new financial instrument — the security — issued by an institution and backed [...]