If Treasury converts its senior preferred shares to commons and the GSEs go for a public offering, existing shareholders will take a haircut. Valuations on the commons could dip to $1/share for Fannie and $2 for Freddie.

Companies will have to shell out $200,000 in application fees for every credit score model they think can compete with the FICO template.

Treasury and FHFA say it is still “premature to comment on specific capital levels” necessary to release the GSEs from conservatorship.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is seeking feedback on what financial requirements should be enforced for FHLB membership.

The Housing Trust Fund and the Capital Magnet Trust will receive $326.4 million and $175.8 million, respectively, for 2019.

In a plan that began at least as far back as 2016, the FHLBanks actively considered buying one of the government-sponsored enterprises. Even senior staff at Treasury and FHFA were involved.

In a contract worth up to $45 million over four years, the M&A specialist will help FHFA develop “a roadmap to responsibly end the conservatorships” of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

All applications for LIBOR-based single-family and multifamily ARMs must be dated Sept. 30 or earlier or they won’t be eligible for sale to the GSEs.

The principal change in the proposed FHFA rule is to treat Ginnie mortgages differently from those of Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.

In efforts to move from LIBOR to SOFR, the GSEs informed market participants to expect new language on all single-family uniform adjustable-rate mortgage instruments that close on or after June 1.