Last Updated November 07, 2008
Trade assets tarnished by securitisation scare
With securitisation markets abandoned by investors, Helen Castell investigates whether there is any appetite at all for securitised, high quality trade assets.
With capital markets in crisis, once-lauded risk-sharing structures have never had it so bad. Shouldered with a large share of the blame for the current financial mess, securitisation suddenly finds itself a dirty word.
