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What are Asset Backed Securities?

September 9, 2014

Or ABS -- It's a familiar phrase but what exactly does it mean?

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The ECB has announced it will purchase huge amounts of covered bonds and asset-backed securities from European banks - which some blame for the triggering the financial crisis in the first place.