Processes of pooling in assets and repacking them into securities and selling them to Investors

  • banks can pool various financial assets (mortgages, loans and other receivables) and convert them into securities with this process
  • these are sold the investors, creating additional liquidity in the market

Examples

Mortgage-Backed Securities

  • created by pooling home loans
  • sold to investors
  • investors earn interests from these MBS from the underlying loans1

Asset-Backed Securities

  • using other assets like credit card receivables, auto loans or student loans

Footnotes

  1. The original borrower is paying mortgages to the bank, part of which is interest, those interest payments go to the investors of MBS.