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Case Study: Chase USA

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Finance 533 Winter, 2017 Exam 5 Tuesday section (Yuzhu Zeng) Caroline 11826088 1. What is the purpose of asset securitization? Asset securitization means transforming group of assets, through financial tools into security investments, such as mortgage-back security that is a typical example of securitization. Purpose: Firstly, turn assets into securitizations can give investors more opportunities to invest and get higher return on investment by using new type of financial engineering. Secondly, companies can get funds to expend lending and development. Finally, this process can reduce liquidity risk and investment risk. In addition, make the capital market more efficiency. 2. What is a special purpose vehicle? SPV is a subsidiary of …show more content…

What are the main features of the credit cards in the Chase ABS? Firstly, Chase USA has been securitizing credit card receivables since 1990. Chase USA securitizes its credit card receivables because the market for securitization of financial assets provides Chase USA with a diversified source of funding and liquidity among different markets and investors. Since July 2004, Chase USA has only issued public credit card-backed securities through the issuing …show more content…

It is worth for company. However, one year is a long term. There are many factors can influence the interest rate. Therefore, this conclusion may change based on situation. 7. What is an interest rate swap? Why is it used? What are the risks if interest rates increase or decrease? Can both sides profit from an interest rate swap? Explain your reasoning. (1) Interest rate swap: it is an agreement between two parties, which each party agrees to make interest payments to the other. Typically, one is floating rate and the other is fixed rate, and they exchange interest payment. (2) Because in a financial activities, if one side want to use fixed rate while the other side want to use floating rate. Then they can exchange. Also, if one party has comparative advantage in fixed rate and the other has comparative advantage in floating, after swap, they can reduce capital cost and interest

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