Lawmakers questioned Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mark Calabria on a wide range of issues, including extending the timeline, and expanding the scope, of the eviction moratorium.

Forbearance requests leveled off near the end of May but the share of borrowers missing payments while in forbearance increased.

The GSEs won’t accept LIBOR-based loan applications after Sept. 15. They expect all purchases linked to the London rate to cease by yearend.

The FHFA has adopted bank-like capital standards for Fannie and Freddie, but the result won’t be bank-like returns on equity, making a public stock offering for the two entities more difficult.

With combined assets worth about $6.1 trillion, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will need to set aside roughly $250 billion in leveraged capital in order to comply with the new rule.

Pushing back on the criticism, FHFA Director Mark Calabria said servicers appear able to withstand a substantially deeper economic downturn.

The adoption of CECL left Fannie with a loss of $1.1 billion at the beginning of 2020; but it only cost Freddie $240 million.

Small and women/minority-owned businesses servicing Freddie will receive payment on their invoices at least 20 days earlier than stipulated.

Consumer criticisms regarding mortgages topped the list of coronavirus-related complaints filed with the CFPB in April.