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The United Kingdom's Asset-Backed Securities Guarantee Scheme (U.K. Gfc), June Rhee
The United Kingdom's Asset-Backed Securities Guarantee Scheme (U.K. Gfc), June Rhee
Journal of Financial Crises
The key structures of housing finance in the UK in the years leading up to the global financial crisis of 2007-09 consisted of retail deposits, secondary market funding and wholesale interbank lending. Although retail deposits were the major funder of UK mortgages, secondary market funding, which included covered bonds and residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), accounted for 31% of UK mortgage lending in 2006. In 2007, the collapse of the U.S. subprime mortgage market triggered a financial shock, and the shock quickly traveled beyond national borders. Regardless of differences in the UK mortgage market, investors’ concern over the prospects of the …