The Federal Housing Finance Agency wants the government-sponsored enterprises and the Federal Home Loan Banks to hire chief information security officers to head their cybersecurity programs. The new directive was released just after the FHFA Office of Inspector General issued an audit faulting the regulator’s oversight of cybersecurity issues, and in the wake of further revelations about data breaches at Equifax and other large enterprises. The FHFA said Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the ...
Efforts by Congressional Republicans to expand exemptions to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s new Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data collection and reporting requirements may or may not succeed. But any lender or aggregator seeking to sell eligible mortgages to the government-sponsored enterprises will still have to get with the program. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continue to tweak their systems and processes to accommodate the new mandates, scheduled to kick in Jan. 1 ...
The Trump administration has proposed to cancel $16 billion of the National Flood Insurance Program’s existing debt in addition to other legislative proposals to boost the program’s ability to meet its obligations while remaining viable as a major provider of flood insurance to mortgagors. A political fight could erupt over the proposals, observers say. In a letter to Vice President Michael Pence, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney sought legislative reforms that would place the ...
Federal regulators and industry analysts raised concerns that defaults would spike once pre-crisis home-equity lines of credit hit their amortization periods. Those fears didn’t come to pass as vintage HELOCs have performed well, thanks to home-price appreciation and low interest rates. Pre-crisis HELOCs typically had interest-only periods for the first 10 years then switch to fully amortizing or required a full payment as part of a balloon feature. According to a 2015 report by the Office of the Currency ...
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