Loan securitization has become a widely used method for consolidating collections of loans into financial instruments with sufficiently stable statistical properties that they can be freely traded. In recent years the concept has been generally extended, creating a class of asset backed securities, financial instruments which are created from a wide variety of loan sources, including credit car...

We analyze asset-backed commercial paper conduits which played a central role in the early phase of the financial crisis of 2007-09. We document that commercial banks set up conduits to securitize assets while insuring the newly securitized assets using credit guarantees. The credit guarantees were structured to reduce bank capital requirements, while providing recourse to bank balance sheets f...

The study has looked into the institutional credit in relation with agricultural productivity in Jammu & Kashmir. The results have revealed that although the credit deployment of scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) to agriculture has increased in absolute terms, its percentage share in the total credit outstanding has declined sharply. The intensity of agricultural credit has also declined over t...

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This open-access work is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 2.0 Germany, which permits use, reproduction & distribution in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author(s) and source are given credit.

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Banks play an important role in the economic development of every nation. They have control over a large part of the supply of money in circulation. Since, the appearance of private commercial banks is the larger portion of the banking sector in Bangladesh, thus this study is intended to measure the performance of selected private sector banks (five), listed on both the Dhaka Stock Exchange and...