Securitization

Quick meaning: Securitization is a noun meaning (commerce, finance) The fact or process of securitizing assets; the conversion of loans into securities, usually in order to sell them on to other investors.

Meaning

(commerce, finance) The fact or process of securitizing assets; the conversion of loans into securities, usually in order to sell them on to other investors.

More Meanings

1. (politics) The act of convincing a relevant audience to treat a topic as a matter of security (regardless of whether it constitutes an actual threat), thus justifying the use of extraordinary measures.

Example Sentences

[…] although the securitization of migration can be observed in both Canada and France, […]

Nonetheless, in the case of climate change, securitization is appropriate and necessary: because this genuinely is an existential threat to all major states; […]

Securitization became a fee-based business. […] The logic of private-label securitization was mass production, and new mortgages had to be fed into this machine constantly to sustain it.

The emphasis on the securitization of immigration actually began before September 11 and has resulted in policy change towards criminalizing undocumented immigrants in both the United States and Europe.

Word Forms

• securitizations
• securitisation

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