Definition of "issuers" []

• Plural form of issuer. (noun)

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• "Many of the products funded by private-label issuers had features that attracted low-income borrowers, which threatened Fannie Mae's ability to meet its mandated housing goals, Levin said."
• "To this must be added $134 billion of subprime and Alt-A loans that Freddie purchased from private label issuers,19 for a grand total of $392 billion--20 percent of Freddie's single-family portfolio of $1.8 trillion."
• "In a very real sense, then, competition from Fannie and Freddie beginning in late 2004 caused both groups to scrape the bottom of the barrel-Fannie and Freddie in order to demonstrate to Congress their ability to increase support for affordable housing, and the private-label issuers trying to maintain their market share against the GSEs 'increased demand for subprime and Alt-A products."