securitisation

Noun

securitization (countable and uncountable, plural securitizations)

1. The fact or process of securitizing assets; the conversion of loans into securities, usually in order to sell them on to other investors.
   • Securitization became a fee-based business. […] The logic of private-label securitization was mass production, and new mortgages had to be fed into this machine constantly to sustain it.2020, Katharina Pistor, “4: Minting Debt”, in The Code of Capital […] , Princeton University Press, →ISBN
2. The act of convincing a relevant audience to treat a topic as a matter of security (regardless of whether it constitutes an actual threat), thus justifying the use of extraordinary measures.
   • The negative side-effects of securitization of migration have, however, become exacerbated as many Muslims in the U.S. and elsewhere have experienced heightened scrutiny and disbelief while travelling and in everyday life.2004, Kristof Tamas, Mapping Study on International Migration, Inst for Future Studies