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Mortgage Backed Securities & its Importance
Mortgage-backed securities, called MBS, are bonds secured by home and other real estate loans. MBS is a product of Asset-Backed Securities.
Counterparty Risk
Counterpart risk is defined as the risk that a counterparty is unable or unwilling to live up to its contractual obligations
Foreign Currency and Local Currency Defaults
Foreign currency defaults occur when countries fail to repay debt, while local currency defaults often result from inflation.
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Futures Contract
Futures Contract – Financial institutions use Hedging to increase financial stability and reduce the risk of financial distress.
LOGIT models
LOGIT model is rom the Generalized Linear Model (GLM) family. It is primarily widely used as a statistical tool to predict default
Mean Reversion
Mean reversion is the tendency of a variable to revert to a long-term level, which can also be called an unconditional mean.
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What is Risk Appetite?
Risk appetite refers to the level (and types) of risk that a firm is willing to retain.
Correspondent Banking
Respondent banks with no international presence can use cross-border correspondent connections to operate in jurisdictions to which they don’t have access
Independent Events
If the outcome of one event has no bearing on the likelihood of the other, they are considered independent events.
What is Adjusted R-Squared?
The adjusted R squared modifies the standard R squared to account for the degrees of freedom used when estimating model parameters
What is Poisson Distribution?
Poisson random variables are used to measure counts of events.
Special Purpose Vehicle
A special purpose vehicle (SPV) is a subsidiary company that is formed to undertake a specific business purpose or activity.