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Coming off the naughty step

Baker & McKenzie’s Jonathan Walsh charts the quiet rehabilitation of asset-backed lending

Securitisation has taken a battering in recent years. A complex financing technique, little understood by the public, it was an easy scapegoat as a principal cause of the global financial crisis. For a while after the crisis it seemed as if various supervisory authorities would regulate it to the point of extinction.

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