Rep. Hensarling: “This means the government needs to be in the last-loss position, with multiple layers of private capital, as diversified as possible, stacked up before it.”
The single security initiative and issuance of the first uniform MBS are on track for implementa-tion and issuance in the second quarter of 2019 and the government-sponsored enterprises are taking steps to make sure the market is ready, according to a progress update released this week by the Feder-al Housing Finance Agency.
Now comes the big question: Why is the president of the United States weighing in on a bank regulatory issue? Then again, it’s Donald Trump. Mortgage ramifications? Stay tuned…