Understanding Mortgage-Backed Securities
Monday, December 1st, 2008Mortgage originators - those companies that help start mortgages and transactions - rarely keep the mortgages they start. Many mortgages are sold to secondary markets because the originators want to take the fees they collected and keep mortgage debts off of their books.
These new mortgages usually become part of mortgage-backed securities (MBS), asset-backed securities, and collateralized debt obligations markets.
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