Term of the Day -Structured Finance

Rahul Gupta (Project Controller ACA MBA(Fin.))   (8019 Points)

14 May 2010  

What Does Structured Finance Mean?


A service that generally involves highly complex financial transactions offered by many large financial institutions for companies with very unique financing needs. These financing needs usually don't match conventionalfinancial products such as a loan

Structured finance has become a major segment in the financial industry since the mid-1980s. Collateralized bond obligations (CBOs), collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), syndicated loans and synthetic financial instruments are examples of structured financial instruments.

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