"Structured Finance is a textbook focusing on non-recourse financial techniques and asset-based lending. It explains the main structured finance techniques used today (LBO, project finance, asset finance and securitization) and how they compare. The book also outlines the reasons why these structures have been so successful in the last 30 to 40 years and why bankers came up with them in the first place. The book is a good introduction on these main financing techniques. It also allows the readers to take a step back by showing the similarities and the differences that exist between these four types of structured transactions. The appendices expose, in detail, the characteristics of financial instruments that can be found in all these transactions (such as Credit Default Swaps and Credit Linked Notes). The book will also include a presentation of the regulatory framework (Basel Accords) under which these transactions are now implemented"-- Provided by publisher