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So what is Structured Finance and who is a Structured Finance Expert Witness?

As defined online in Wikipedia: Structured finance is a broad term used to describe a sector of finance that was created to help transfer risk and avoid laws using complex legal and corporate entities. This risk transfer as applied to securitization of various financial assets (e.g. mortgages, credit card receivables, auto loans, etc.) has helped to open up new sources of financing to consumers. However, it arguably contributed to the degradation in underwriting standards for these financial assets, which helped give rise to both the inflationary credit bubble of the mid-2000s and the credit crash and financial crisis of 2007-2009.

Craig Wolson, a Structured Finance Expert Witness deals specifically with structured finance topics such as:

• Cash, synthetic and hybrid Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs),
• Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs),
• Collateralized Bond Obligations (CBOs),
• Asset-Backed Securities (ABS),
• Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS),
• Asset-Backed Commercial Paper (ABCP)
• Structured Investment Vehicles (SIVs)

The Expert Witness Network free search directory at Witness.net contains many expert witnesses in many different niche areas.  One of these niche areas is structured finance expert witnesses.  To see our listings for these types of experts, click here: Structured Finance