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agency

[a´jen-se]

an organization that performs actions for other people, particularly of a service nature.

home health agency a public agency or private organization that is primarily engaged in providing skilled or paraprofessional home health care to individuals in out-of-hospital settings, such as private homes, boarding homes, hospices, shelters, and so on. Its policies must be established and supervised by professional personnel, including one or more physicians and one or more registered nurses. It must maintain clinical records on all patients. In states with laws licensing such agencies, it must be licensed pursuant to such laws and approved as meeting the standards established for such licensing. It must also meet certain other requirements as specified in the Social Security Act, section 1861 (o).

agency

Etymology: L, agere, to do

1 (in law) a relationship between two parties in which one authorizes the other to act on his or her behalf as agent. It usually implies a contractual arrangement between two parties managed by a third party, the agent.

2 the business of any power or firm empowered to act for another.

Agency

A generic term for a governmental or non-governmental organisation which is responsible for delivering services and for which workers may work for pay or as volunteers.
Legal A relationship established between two parties in which one party (the agent) is empowered to act on behalf of the other (the principal).
Managed care An organization, enterprise or governmental body.

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There are also funds that blend Treasuries with government agency bonds such as Ginnie Maes to produce a higher yield (though, again, not without some additional risk).

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Aggregate index are loaded with Treasury and government agency bonds.

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23 August 2013 -- Washington DC-based securities firms regulator The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) said that it has fined US-based Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co LLC (NYSE: MS) USD 1m and ordered USD 188,000 in restitution plus interest for failing to provide best execution in certain customer transactions involving corporate and agency bonds, and failing to provide a fair and reasonable price in certain customer transactions involving municipal bonds.

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Much of the debt - including sewer service bonds, redevelopment agency bonds and Department of Water and Power bonds - is tied to dedicated sources of income.

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Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA; President: Shinichi Kitaoka) launched on September 2, 2016 Fiscal Investment and Loan Program (FILP) Agency bonds (non-government guaranteed domestic bonds) in two tranches: JPY 20 billion with a 10-year maturity and JPY 15 billion with a 30-year maturity.

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Finra found that Morgan Stanley failed to use reasonable diligence to ensure that the purchase or sale price to the customer was as favourable as possible in 116 customer transactions involving corporate and agency bonds.