What is Mortgage Backed Securities?
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Description
Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) are financial instruments created by pooling together a group of mortgage loans and selling interests (securities) in the pool to investors. The investors receive periodic payments derived from the borrowers' mortgage payments, both principal and interest. MBS allow banks to offload mortgage risk and free up capital for new lending, while giving investors access to a diversified stream of mortgage-backed cash flows.
The UAE's MBS market is nascent compared to the US (where MBS is a multi-trillion-dollar market). However, the Dubai Financial Market and DIFC have frameworks for securitisation, and Islamic equivalents (sukuk backed by real estate receivables) are available. The Emirates Mortgage Company, established under federal law, aims to develop a secondary mortgage market in the UAE, which could eventually support MBS issuance at scale.
How to interpret
MBS allows banks to convert illiquid mortgage loans into tradeable securities, recycling capital for new lending while distributing mortgage risk to capital market investors. For investors, MBS provides access to a diversified pool of mortgage cash flows without the need to originate or service individual loans.
The credit risk of MBS depends on the standard of the underlying mortgage pool. In well-regulated markets with strong underwriting standards, MBS is a relatively safe fixed-income investment. In markets with loose lending standards, MBS can carry hidden concentration and credit risk, as demonstrated by the 2008 global financial crisis.
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The UAE's mortgage market is primarily funded through bank deposits rather than capital market securitisation, which is why MBS is less developed in the UAE than in the US or Europe. The Central Bank has encouraged development of a secondary mortgage market as part of financial sector deepening, which could eventually support more MBS issuance.
Islamic real estate securities (sukuk backed by ijara or murabaha receivables) are the closest equivalent to MBS in the UAE market. These instruments distribute income derived from real estate financing contracts to sukuk holders. The DIFC and Nasdaq Dubai host a number of real estate-backed sukuk listings.
Frequently asked questions
Investment securities created by pooling mortgage loans together and selling shares to investors, who receive payments from the underlying borrowers' mortgage payments.
Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) are financial instruments created by pooling together a group of mortgage loans and selling interests (securities) in the pool to investors. The investors receive periodic payments derived from the borrowers' mortgage payments, both principal and interest.
MBS allows banks to convert illiquid mortgage loans into tradeable securities, recycling capital for new lending while distributing mortgage risk to capital market investors. For investors, MBS provides access to a diversified pool of mortgage cash flows without the need to originate or service individual loans.
The UAE's mortgage market is primarily funded through bank deposits rather than capital market securitisation, which is why MBS is less developed in the UAE than in the US or Europe. The Central Bank has encouraged development of a secondary mortgage market as part of financial sector deepening, which could eventually support more MBS issuance.
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However, the Dubai Financial Market and DIFC have frameworks for securitisation, and Islamic equivalents (sukuk backed by real estate receivables) are available. The Emirates Mortgage Company, established under federal law, aims to develop a secondary mortgage market in the UAE, which could eventually support MBS issuance at scale.
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