As the former director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute, Mark Calabria brings a decidedly libertarian perspective to housing finance.

The loan originator’s unique identifier assigned by the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry will not be disclosed publicly…

Buybacks by GSE seller/servicers set a new quarterly low…

Was it Mnuchin’s idea to call the six bank CEOs or did President Trump put him up to it? That storyline has yet to be fully explored…

Even a relatively modest increase in interest rates is likely to have a disproportionate impact on the ability of high debt-to-income households to qualify for GSE loans, according to a recent report by Wells Fargo Securities Structured Products Research.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency proposed new standards Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac must use to consider approving new credit-scoring models.

The average guarantee fee charged by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was unchanged at 56 basis points in 2017, according to an annual report from the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

In what’s become a nearly annual event, the Congressional Budget Office this week suggested raising the guarantee fees charged by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and/or lowering the loan limit, in order to reduce the federal deficit.

“Securitization is the false god that failed us.” These are the words of Mark Calabria, the conservative economist whom the Trump administration nominated last week as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, replacing Mel Watt, whose term ends in January.

Banks held $553.4 billion of Federal Home Loan Bank advances at the end of the third quarter, according to Inside The GSEs analysis of call reports.