The unbundling and repackaging of hard-to-trade financial assets into more liquid, negotiable, and marketable financial instruments is called ________.

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Securitization involves taking assets, typically loans or other financial assets, and creating securities that can be bought and sold on the market. This process creates more liquid and marketable financial instruments that can be easily traded. Market liquidity refers to the ease with which assets can be bought and sold on the market, but it does not involve the repackaging of assets. Bartering involves the exchange of goods or services without using money as a medium of exchange. Arbitrage refers to the practice of taking advantage of price differences between two markets by buying and selling the same asset in different markets.

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