Asset-backed securities (ABS) and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) explained

Securitization is the process in which certain types of assets are pooled so that they can be repackaged into interest-bearing securities. The interest and principal payments from the assets are passed through to the purchasers of the securities.Both Asset-backed securities (ABS) and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) are fixed-income financial securities collateralized (backed) by a pool of…

Meaning of devaluation of a currency

Devaluation of a currency means the official lowering of value of a country’s currency within a fixed exchange rate system. In devaluation, the monetary authority of the country deliberately make downward adjustment of the value of a country’s money and sets a new fixed rate with respect to a foreign reference currency (currency of other…