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Accounting For Securitization
Accounting For Securitization
Accounting For Securitization
Securitizations
Securitizations
Residential Mortgages
Was the first and remains the most important
type or securitized financial asset.
Residential mortgage securitizations are
sponsored.
Ginnie Mae and other government-sponsored
enterprises are the sponsors of securitizations.
Ginnie Mae sponsors but does not issue
securitizations of mortgages.
Ginnie Mae provides timing insurance.
Securitizations
• Securitization structures
Pass-through securitizations
Simplest form of securitization
Tranched securitizations
Yield distinct tranches of securities with different
prepayment, interest rate, credit, or other risk.
Collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs)
Tranched securitizations for residential
mortgages
Securitizations
Scope exclusions
Transfers of some types of financial assets.
“Specifically, transfers of financial assets associated
with pension and other postemployment benefit
plans, leveraged leases, and insurance contracts are
excluded.”
Securitizations
Disclosures
Requires minimal disclosures for
securitizations.
According to the text, the issuer must disclose
A description of the economic characteristics of
securitizations, including the nature of each retained
interest.
The policies used to account for and the
methodology and significant assumptions used to
estimate the fair values of each retained interest, or
the reason why it is not practicable to estimate their
fair value.
Sensitivity tests indicating the hypothetical change in
the fair value of each retained interest or two or more
unfavorable changes in each significant assumption
used to estimate its fair value.
Securitizations
Disclosures
The gain or loss on sale during a period.
The various cash flows between the issuer and the
securitization SPEs during the period.
Securitizations