Treasury counselor Craig Phillips advised meeting participants to assure their bosses and government affairs offices that Treasury is fully committed to the project. “If you have problems, tell them to call me,” he quipped.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Freddie Mac released separate reports in May suggesting that potential borrowers should talk to multiple lenders when seeking a mortgage. The organizations noted that a significant share of borrowers are missing out on thousands of dollars in savings by neglecting to consider offerings from a variety of lenders.
Over the years it seems as though commercial banks have basically ceded the multifamily market to nonbanks that use the GSEs as their secondary market takeout…
MBA: “An important recent example is the use of a single vendor for various aspects of a major enterprise technology project, thereby forcing many lenders to choose whether to retain their existing vendors or switch to the lone ‘approved’ vendor.”
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac issued a record $4.53 billion of new credit-risk transfer debt notes during the first quarter of 2018, according to an Inside MBS & ABS analysis. [Includes one data chart.]
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac don’t act like two companies in their 10th year of government conservatorship, waiting for federal policymakers to figure out what to do with them.
In what is largely an intellectual exercise, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mel Watt said last week that the agency will propose a new risk-based capital rule for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac even though it won’t apply while they’re in conservatorship.
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