The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), earlier in May…
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator of the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, has also been the conservator of the…
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) on February 16 released its 2021 Scorecard for the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. The scorecard…
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) recently announced and is seeking public comment on a proposed “living will” rule to apply to the two government-sponsored…
The GSE reform question, i.e. how should the government-sponsored enterprises of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac end their conservatorships, has proven to be one of the most…
The two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae have just entered into their thirteenth year of conservatorship, despite its originally having been…
Today, more than twelve years into conservatorship, the path forward for the reform of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), is in some…
The Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) announced in mid-July it would at last do a review of the secondary mortgage market. For many decades, housing finance policy…
The Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) system consists of eleven regional banks that are cooperatives owned by their members, which their congressional charters currently specify…
This third installment about demystifying single-family mortgage credit risk transfer (CRT) by the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae…