Russia’s mortgage market: Securitization is no longer a dirty word

Russia’s flourishing mortgage market is the next big opportunity for the country’s securitization market. Jethro Wookey reports from Moscow.

EARLIER THIS YEAR, rating agency Moody’s Investors Service published a report on the growing importance of securitization in Russia and other emerging European markets. “As the popularity of securitization continues to sweep across Russia,” it read, “the government has indicated its intention to continue developing legislation and regulations that would simplify the securitization process.” This support from the government is critical to the impressive growth of securitization in Russia.

President Vladimir Putin’s target is for one-third of Russians to own their own homes by 2010, and his government has been active in reaching that goal.

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