There are no surprises in the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s 2019 scorecard, which outlines its conservatorship priorities over the coming year for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and their joint venture Common Securitization Solutions. The report underscores goals dating from the FHFA’s 2014 strategic plan.

On Friday, just two days before the Congress recessed for the holidays, House Committee on Financial Services Chairman Jeb Hensarling, R-TX, surprised industry observers by holding the long-delayed hearing on his pet project, “The Bipartisan Housing Finance Reform Act of 2018.”

Miscellaneous news items about the government-sponsored enterprises.

The ARM share typically goes up when interest rates rise, but not this time around…

The profit margin outlook has declined for nine consecutive quarters…

The securitization rate increased to 71.6 percent in 3Q18 compared to 65.0 percent in the previous period…

The Wall Street group’s advisory council on TBA guidelines met earlier this week with several key Trump administration officials...

Joseph Otting will be joining the Trump administration's "two-hat" club...

Repurchases of GSE loans by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac sellers continued to decline in the third quarter, though the pipeline of unresolved buyback demands ticked higher. [Includes one data chart.]

After several years of deliberations on how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac use credit scores, the Federal Housing Finance Agency last week proposed a new rule on how the government-sponsored enterprises would consider new scoring methods.