Credit rating is the most important variable in determining tranche spread at issue on
collateralised debt obligations (CDOs) issues backed by project finance (PF) loans. Factors …

The Independence of Credit Rating Agencies focuses on the institutional and regulatory
dynamics of these agencies, asking whether their business models give them enough …

Motivated by religious prescriptions and severe informational problems in the corporate
sukuk market, we investigate how capital market imperfections influence sukuk securitization …

This paper examines the pricing of structured finance (SF)–asset-backed securities (ABS),
mortgage-backed securities (MBS), and collateralized debt obligations (CDO)–and straight …

Malaysian firms have been reported to be involved in Asset-Backed Securities since 1986
when Cagamas Bhd was the pioneer in the field. This research aims to examine the factors …

Securitization is the process whereby financial assets are pooled together, with their cash
flows, and sold to a specially created third party that has borrowed money to finance the …

We examine the factors that influence nonfinancial firms' choice of issuing standard
corporate bonds vis-à-vis contracting structured finance, in the form of project finance or …

The financial crisis has opened up a global debate on the taxation of the financial sector. A
number of international policy initiatives, most notably by the G20, have called for major …

This section compares the similar concepts of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and
Environmental Social Governance (ESG) from the perspective of business practitioners …

The 2008 Global financial crisis and the subsequent European sovereign debt crisis
deteriorated banks funding conditions and lead to a substitution effect among bond …