As seen during the financial crisis, unsound practices in securitisation markets resulted in significant threats to the integrity of the financial system, namely due to excessive leverage, opaque and complex structures that made pricing problematic, mechanistic reliance on external ratings or misalignment between the interests of investors and originators ("agency risks").
Kot je pokazala finančna kriza, so nepreudarne prakse na trgih listinjenja resno ogrozile celovitost finančnega sistema, in sicer zaradi prekomernih finančnih vzvodov, nepreglednih in zapletenih struktur, ki so oteževale določanje cen, mehaničnega zanašanja na zunanje bonitetne ocene ter neusklajenih interesov investitorjev in originatorjev (t.i. „agencijska tveganja“).