Structured Finance Instrument

From Open Risk Manual

Definition

Structured Finance Instrument. A security that has periodic principal payments with the amount of principal that is paid being dictated by a published factor.

This may be either an invented product (synthetic) or based on a real underlying asset pool. Either way, the underlying is defined by the issuing bank or investment company. These are traded. This is based on tranches of underlying asset pools. These are defined by the issuing bank or investment company.

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