If innovation is something akin to pooling the most amount of cash on the books (around a trillion and a half dollars in market cap), then yeah, Silicon Valley is the mecca.

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Securitization involves pooling assets or rights to cash flows, bundling together those assets with similar characteristics, and creating a financial instrument that can be traded (often through a special purpose vehicle, or SPV).

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