In 2015, the two GSEs sold credit risk on about $407 billion of UPB through their back-end risk-transfer programs. The actual amount of credit risk transferred was $12.6 billion.
The new approach is expected to be a more cost-effective route than going through the repeated repurchase requests that have plagued lenders over the years.
A number of financial indicators and documents suggest that Fannie Mae was not in the dire straits reported to justify its takeover, according to a new white paper. Adam Spittler, GSE activist investor, along with Mike Ciklin, owner of a small law firm specializing in MBS, and G. Stevenson Smith, an accounting professor specializing in fraud, published a white paper saying they reviewed financial statements to better understand the viability of the GSE from 2007 to 2014.