Introduction to Structured Finance (Frank J. Fabozzi Series) - Tapa dura

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FRANK J. FABOZZI, PHD, CFA, CFP, is an Adjunct Professor of Finance at Yale University's School of Management and the Editor of the Journal of Portfolio Management.

HENRY A. DAVIS, MBA, is an editor, writer, and consultant working in the fields of banking and corporate finance. He currently serves as Editor of two quarterly professional journals, the Journal of Structured Finance and the Journal of Investment Compliance.

MOORAD CHOUDHRY is Head of Treasury at KBC Financial Products in London. Previously, he worked at JPMorgan Chase Bank, where he was a vice president of structured finance services sales and marketing.

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Structured finance is a term that covers a very wide range offinancial market transactions and products. While a commondefinition of it seems to center on securitization, structuredfinancial products also include credit derivatives, bonds withembedded options, leveraged leasing, project financing, and avariety of other complex financing transactions.

Created by the experienced author team of Frank Fabozzi, HenryDavis, and Moorad Choudhry, Introduction to StructuredFinance examines the essential elements of this disciplineand makes them understandable to a wide audience—fromprofessionals generally familiar with the world of finance who wantto enhance their technical knowledge to specialists in somestructured finance disciplines who want to become more familiarwith others.

Written in a straightforward and accessible style, thiscomprehensive guide—along with its information-packedappendices—contains a broad view of structured finance thatincludes:

• Securitization
• Interest rate derivatives (such as options, caps, andfloors)
• Credit derivatives (such as asset swaps and total returnswaps)
• Securitized and synthetic funding structures
• Cash and synthetic collateralized debt obligations (CDOs)
• Credit-linked notes and structured notes
• Complex leasing transactions
• Project financing

Structured finance plays an important and growing role intoday's financial markets. Indeed, a large part of financialinnovation in recent years has been related to securitization,credit derivatives, or a combination of the two. Introductionto Structured Finance offers a well-rounded treatment ofthis dynamic discipline, a convenient reference covering all theimportant transaction types in one place, and an excellentopportunity to enhance your financial skills.