Loan Securities with Credit Risk Coverage Approach

Among the tools which are used for risk management in most banks of the world is the conversion process of bank claims into securities. This process can fulfill objectives such as increasing liquidity, expanding and diversifying activities, reducing liquidity and credit risks, and improving bank's capital adequacy ratio (CAR). Asset securitization is a process in which financial intermediaries including commercial banks directly sell exchangeable securities to investors; it is one of the main solutions for generating cash flow in the banking sector. This process is a major financial innovation which was invented for the first time in United States of America in 1970s and deeply influenced the role of financial intermediaries in capital market. Since then, due to the increased world demand for money, banks have felt the necessity of applying this technique and, accordingly, have sought to change their strategies. This tool which has been applied in the world for more than 40 years is not at its operational stage in Iran yet. In the present paper, after investigating different securitization processes and their use, the concept, process, and advantages of converting bank's credit facilities into securities for reducing credit risk are stated.