This overview is a guide to the Banking & Finance content within the Structured Products subtopic, with links to appropriate materials.
Structured finance is a term used to cover a range of types of financing techniques used by a holder of assets to transfer risk from the assets using methods of financial structuring. Typically, a combination of derivatives and securities is used to achieve this. The Bank of International Settlements identifies three elements of structured finance:
pooling assets owned by the holder
tranching (ie division into tiered levels) issued bonds, which are backed (ie secured) by the asset pool
de-linking (ie removal) the credit risk of the pool of assets from the credit risk of the holder of the assets
There is a large variety of structures that can be used to bring about this result and the method used will be dictated by the type of asset and the type of holder.
The most significant holders of assets will typically be banks—commercial banks use their capital to extend loans to various borrowers and these loans are held on the relevant bank's balance sheet.
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