The government-sponsored enterprises will soon issue pilot non-agency risk-transfer transactions, according to officials at the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The GSEs missed a third quarter 2012 deadline set by the FHFA to issue risk-sharing transactions due to complications with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Patrick Lawler, chief economist at the FHFA, said a risk-sharing transaction will hopefully be issued in the “not too distant future.” Speaking at the ...