Residential mortgage backed security issuance in the United States 2002-2017

The data displays the extent of residential mortgage backed security issuance in the U.S. from 2002 to 2017. Mortgage backed securities are a type of asset-backed security. The pooled mortgages in the fund are sold to financial institutions, most often an investment bank or government agency that packages the loans in order that they may be sold to investors. In 2017, residential mortgage backed security issuance amounted to just over 782 billion USD in the U.S.