Bill Maloni, a retired Fannie executive who’s been tracking the reform debate for years, believes the Corker bill, if enacted as is, eventually will place the secondary market in the hands of the megabanks.

Calabria is a former director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute, a conservative think tank that would like to do away Fannie and Freddie…

Ginnie Mae late last week cautioned servicers in its single-family mortgage-backed securities program to pay more attention to “acceptable risk parameters” that could affect their participation in the program.

The FHFA would be tasked with maximizing profits on any asset sales by Fannie and Freddie, according to the Corker bill…

Flagstar contributed $1.02 billion to jumbo MBS last year, or 9.4 percent of the total market…

“Jerry Buckley would fit the bill perfectly,” said one industry lobbyist...

Mnuchin said the 30-year FRM cannot survive without Fannie and Freddie...

Treasury would be barred from selling or disposing of “any senior preferred shares, any interest in the warrants, any common shares acquired upon the exercise of the warrants, or any other equity interest that were acquired pursuant to the Senior Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement.”

The authors note that 90 percent of Fannie/Freddie MBS trading occurs in the TBA forward market.

Credit card issuers will probably have a good 2018, much like they did last year, but some dark clouds are beginning to appear on the horizon, according to a new report from DBRS.