(finance) To convert assets (typically outstanding loans or other receivables) to securities, usually by selling them with a discount to a financial intermediary, which pools them with other similar assets and sells further as securities to third-party investors.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of securitize

Made into a security.

simple past tense and past participle of securitize

One who or that which securitizes.

plural of securitizer

present participle of securitize

(commerce, finance) The fact or process of securitizing assets; the conversion of loans into securities, usually in order to sell them on to other investors.

plural of securitization

(now historical) The official state security and secret police force of Romania under Communist rule.