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A Large Part of Financial Innovation in Recent Years Has Been Related to Securitization, Credit Derivatives, or a Combination of the Two - Introduction to Structured Finance.


DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c42946) has announced the addition of Introduction to Structured Finance to their offering.

Structured finance is a term that covers a very wide range of financial market transactions and products. While a common definition of it seems to center on securitization, structured financial products also include credit derivatives, bonds with embedded options, leveraged leasing, project financing Project financing

A form of asset-based financing in which a firm finances a discrete set of assets on a stand-alone basis.
, and a variety of other complex financing transactions.

Created by the experienced author team of Frank Fabozzi, Henry Davis, and Moorad Choudhry, Introduction to Structured Finance examines the essential elements of this discipline and makes them understandable to a wide audience Co from professionals generally familiar with the world of finance who want to enhance their technical knowledge to specialists in some structured finance disciplines who want to become more familiar with others.

Written in a straightforward and accessible style, this comprehensive guide Co along with its information-packed appendices Co contains a broad view of structured finance that includes:

* Securitization

* Interest rate derivatives (such as options, caps, and floors)

* Credit derivatives (such as asset swaps and total return swaps Total Return Swap

Any swap in which the non-floating rate side is based on the total return of an equity or fixed income instrument with a life longer than the swap.

Notes:
Total return swaps are most common in equity or physical commodity markets.
)

* Securitized and synthetic funding structures

* Cash and synthetic collateralized debt obligations Synthetic Collateralized Debt Obligation

An artificial collateralized debt obligation that is backed by a pool of credit derivatives.

Notes:
Rather than the traditional pools of assets such as bonds and loans, the pools of credit derivatives that back synthetic CDOs
 (CDOs)

* Credit-linked notes and structured notes

* Complex leasing transactions

* Project financing

Structured finance plays an important and growing role in today's financial markets. Indeed, a large part of financial innovation in recent years has been related to securitization, credit derivatives, or a combination of the two. Introduction to Structured Finance offers a well-rounded treatment of this dynamic discipline, a convenient reference covering all the important transaction types in one place, and an excellent opportunity to enhance your financial skills.

About the authors

FRANK J. FABOZZI Frank J. Fabozzi is the Frederick Frank Adjunct Professor of Finance at Yale School of Management. He has taught at Yale University since 1994. Fabozzi, an investment management expert, is a Wall Street authority and editor of the Journal of Portfolio Management. , PHD, CFA (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986) Signed into law in 1986, the CFA was a significant step forward in criminalizing unauthorized access to computer systems and networks. The Act applies to "federal interest computers" that include any system used by the U.S. , CFP 1. CFP - Constraint Functional Programming.
2. CFP - Communicating Functional Processes.
3. CFP - Call For Papers (for a conference).
, is an Adjunct Professor of Finance at Yale University's School of Management and the Editor of the Journal of Portfolio Management.

HENRY A. DAVIS, MBA MBA
abbr.
Master of Business Administration

Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business
Master in Business, Master in Business Administration
, is an editor, writer, and consultant working in the fields of banking and corporate finance. He currently serves as Editor of two quarterly professional journals, the Journal of Structured Finance and the Journal of Investment Compliance.

MOORAD CHOUDHRY is Head of Treasury at KBC KBC Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
KBC Kaun Banega Crorepati (Indian TV show)
KBC Koahnic Broadcast Corporation (Anchorage, Alaska)
KBC Keyboard Connector
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 Financial Products in London. Previously, he worked at JPMorgan Chase Bank, where he was a vice president of structured finance services sales and marketing.

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