Mortgage - Backed Securities (MBS) investors are an important constituency in the housing finance debate, because since the advent of securitization it is the MBS investor — in particular the Agency MBS investor both here and around the world — who has provided the majority of the capital to the $ 11 trillion US residential mortgage market. (businessinsider.com)
«It would be easy for the present crisis to be blamed on particular agencies: governments, peak bodies, manufacturers, or the farmers themselves. (afr.com)
I've long thought, for example, that it'd be better in Washington to have reporters cover risk and regulation instead of having single reporters cover particular agencies (think of cross-cutting issues like genetically modified foods, the health impacts of pollution...). (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)