Definition for : Asset backed securities

Asset backed securities are securities issues by a vehicle created on purpose to buy Assets from a bank, a company, a state, like Trade receivables or Inventories, and to provide the seller with cash and the buyer with a financial product caracterised by a certain Risk profile and a Rate of return.

(See Chapter 22 Shares of the Vernimmen)

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