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Debtfree Issue 202303 - DB SE

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DEBT REVIEW AND YOUR CREDIT SCORE<br />

<strong>SE</strong>CURITISATION<br />

WHAT IS IT?<br />

When you put your money in a bank,<br />

the bank uses that money to make<br />

loans and investments. Sometimes,<br />

the bank might take some of the<br />

loans and investments they’ve made<br />

and package them together into<br />

something called a "security".<br />

A security is basically a bundle of loans or<br />

investments that are sold to other people or<br />

organizations in order to raise money.<br />

For example, let’s say that a bank has made<br />

various home loans to clients. The bank might<br />

take a bunch of those loans and bundle them<br />

together into a security called a "mortgagebacked<br />

security". Then they will sell shares of<br />

that security to investors.<br />

When someone buys a share of a bank<br />

security, they become part-owner of that<br />

bundle of loans or investments. They’ll get

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