An underwriter is a financial expert who takes a look at your finances and evaluate your credit history, assets, and size of the loan you request and how well they anticipate that you can pay back your loan. Moreover, Underwriters generally: a. pay a spread to the issuing firm. Ob. provide only best efforts underwriting in the U.S. C. accept the risk of selling the new securities in exchange for the gross spread. O d. market and distribute an entire issue of new securities within their own firm. e. pass the risk of unsold shares back to the issuing firm via a firm