Buy them, securitize them, sell off the securitized tranches and forget them was the strategy.

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Nippon Credit Bank has tied up with Bankers Trust to securitize troubled assets and help handle foreign operations.

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Additionally, by knowing the profitability associated with different types of care, ACOs could go a step further: they could securitize.

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The first of those would put the vast majority of the mortgage market in the hands of the private sector, where lenders would originate mortgages and securitize them without any government backing.

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Consumer advocates are now happily taking their case to a Democratic Congress, and they don't deny that what they propose could crimp profits of lenders and of investment banks that securitize home loans.

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An ACO would want to securitize the EOC because it can exchange future cash flows for money now, possibly using that money to modernize systems and management techniques in order to increase profits from other EOCs.

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ACOs have the components required to securitize.

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In stepped the investment bank industry with another solution: We'll take your mortgages, securitize them, slice them into categories based on default risk, use computer models to match default risk with yield and sell them to buyers around the world.

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Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve Board chairman who has been criticized for keeping interest rates so low in 2003 and 2004 they fueled the housing bubble, testified earlier Wednesday that demand for loans to securitize, especially by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, were what inflated the bubble, not low short-term interest rates.

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