S&P Tops Rating Agencies In B&C Business in 2003 Standard & Poor’s maintained its hold on the subprime MBS rating market last year, a new Inside B&C Lending analysis reveals. But 2003 also saw some jockeying for position in a year in which the rating agencies stepped up their surveillance of state predatory lending laws – and in many cases, issued widely differing opinions of the risks facing investors – and created different criteria for