Nominations for leaders at CFPB, FHFA waiting for full Senate vote; loanDepot CEO Frank Martell to step down; newer digital lender receives investment from Progressive Insurance.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency in recent years has done a better job than Ginnie Mae in interagency planning for a hypothetical nonbank crisis, according to the Government Accountability Office.

FHFA must turn conservatorship directives into regulations before releasing the GSEs from conservatorship, according to former agency director Mark Calabria. But an explicit guarantee is unnecessary, he said.

FHFA removed mention of DEI from a key GSE evaluation standard.

Experienced appraisers combine flood disclosure information and local knowledge to provide appraisal values that reflect the underlying risk to the property. And less-experienced appraisers were found to assign higher property values to homes in flood areas.

The Trump administration’s failure to name acting directors for key federal agencies leaves them either under the control of Biden appointees or without a presidentially appointed leader.

Trump has nominated Bill Pulte to be director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency; Fitch upgrades master servicer rating on Mr. Cooper; new ABS issuer.

More than 450 mortgage loans, many of them insured by FHA, were approved based on fabricated documents tied to the guilty plea.

The next step to revise capital requirements for large banks is undetermined, two mortgage efforts at the CFPB will fall to a Republican appointee and FHFA’s planned reforms for the FHLBanks face uncertainty.

The largest mortgage asset exchange will bring trended data to hundreds of lenders and investors.