financer

plural financers

1. businessAn entity that provides financing

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   And only a select few borrowers with pristine credit can secure the most attractive rates: for the week that ended Jan. 15, rates on a 30-year fixed mortgage sank to 5.12 percent, the 11th consecutive weekly drop and the lowest rate since the big mortgage financer Freddie Mac began tracking them in 1971.

   2009 January 24, Tara Siegel Bernard, “Costs and Tighter Rules Thwart Refinancings”, in New York Times