VantageScore Solutions has hired Emre Sahingur, a former chief risk officer for model risk management at Fannie Mae, as senior vice president for predictive analytics, research and product management.
Real estate investment trusts will increasingly become key investors in the credit-risk transfer market, according to recent analysis by Keefe, Bruyette & Woods.
Stress tests of the 11 Federal Home Loan Banks went off without a hitch this year. But a closer look reveals varying performance among the banks in the event of a major economic downturn and their relative exposure to the risks measured by the tests.
Law firm Rosicki, Rosicki & Associates, along with two affiliates, has agreed to settle a civil lawsuit alleging the companies systematically defrauded Fannie Mae and the Veterans Administration by routinely overcharging them and submitting false bills for foreclosure and eviction-related expenses.
Speculation is rampant that the Trump administration will appoint a new director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency who will begin carving away chunks of the single-family mortgage business that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac now finance in conservatorship.