The practice of pooling various types of debt, such as mortgages, car loans, or credit card obligations and selling these together. This process of ‘increasing institutional and geographic dispersion of financial asset ownership, feeds the development of securities industry; an industry links issuers with investors, sellers with buyers, and offers services to address the information asymmetry and agency problems arising from securitization. Securities firms benefit from co-location’ (Wójcik (2011) J. Econ. Geog 11, 6, 925).