20 août 2019
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Natacha Aveline, « Securitisation: a danger for Asia », CNRS Éditions, ID : 10.4000/books.editionscnrs.12468
October 2008 Practically unknown to the general public before the “subprime mortgage” crisis, securitisation has become part of today’s media’s vocabulary. This technique, which involves transforming loan portfolios or real assets into securities (shares or bonds) available for any type of investor, is in fact the cause of the most serious financial crisis in history since the 1930s. Already, around 1,000 billion US dollars have disappeared after the decrease in the securities’ value, a sum m...