A mortgage-backed security (MBS) is a type of asset-backed security (an "instrument") which is secured by a mortgage or collection of mortgages. The mortgages...

Commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) are a type of mortgage-backed security backed by commercial and multifamily mortgages rather than residential...

Residential mortgage-backed security (RMBS) are a type of mortgage-backed security backed by residential real estate mortgages. Bonds securitizing mortgages are...

An asset-backed security (ABS) is a security whose income payments, and hence value, are derived from and collateralized (or "backed") by a specified...

securities. The housing bubble preceding the crisis was financed with mortgage-backed securities (MBSes) and collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), which initially...

to provide mortgage funds for homebuyers ever since. Today, Ginnie Mae securities are the only mortgage-backed securities that are backed by the "full...

an interest in the mortgage through a mortgage-backed security. In such a situation, the initial lender is known as the mortgage originator, which then...

purpose is to expand the secondary mortgage market by securitizing mortgage loans in the form of mortgage-backed securities (MBS), allowing lenders to reinvest...

them, and sells them as a mortgage-backed security (MBS) to private investors on the open market. This secondary mortgage market increases the supply...

the "primary mortgage market") and sell grouped loans known as collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs) or mortgage-backed securities (MBS) to investors...