Credit enhancement involves various techniques to improve the credit rating of asset-backed securities, either through internal measures by the issuer or external methods such as third-party guarantees.
Monoline insurers provide guarantees to bond issuers to enhance their creditworthiness. After being highly active in the mid-2000s, particularly in complex structured finance instruments, they faced significant losses due to the subprime lending disaster of 2007.
A Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) is a separate legal entity created by a parent company to isolate financial risk. The SPV is often used for a single specific purpose, such as to facilitate complex financial transactions, isolation of assets, and credit enhancement in securitization.
