GSE shareholders seeking to challenge the Federal Housing Finance Agency based on its single-director structure may now face an added challenge. The Federal Housing Finance Agency has asked the courts to review the decision of the DC Circuit in PHH Corp. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as it relates to similar complaints against the agency. When a 2016 ruling found that the similarly structured Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is not constitutional, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shareholders filed lawsuits asking the courts to vacate the Treasury sweep of GSE profits altogether.

At $600K a Year, Fannie Mae CEO Tim Mayopoulos is Underpaid. Although Fannie Mae reported pre-tax income of $18.4 billion in 2017, its CEO Timothy Mayopoulos took home, once again, a base salary of roughly $600,000, the limit for both GSE CEOs and a figure that seems exceedingly low when compared to financial services firms of similar size. A new 10-K filing from the company notes: “Our chief executive officer’s compensation in 2017 was more than 90 percent below the market median for comparable firms. Our inability to offer market-based compensation hinders our succession planning for our chief executive officer role, and potentially our ability to hire...

Under the new AQB standards, only an associate’s degree in a field related to the appraisal industry will be required…

Suffice to say, Fannie and Freddie are two cash cows that only a crazy person would eliminate, unless that crazy person doesn’t like money…

A three-judge appellate court panel late last week ruled that federal regulators improperly set risk-retention requirements for managers of collateralized loan obligations. The ruling overturned a decision by a lower court but won’t take effect immediately as the federal government could appeal.

This is the fourth in a series of RFIs announced as part of Acting Director Mick Mulvaney’s “call for evidence.”

The budget proposal calls for exempting “small lenders” – companies that generate about 20 percent of FHA business – from the IT fee.

The House of Representatives this week approved bills extending regulatory relief pertaining to the integrated disclosure rule under the Truth in Lending Act and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, or TRID.

The board authorized by Congress to establish appraisal standards will reduce the minimum criteria for a person to become a licensed residential appraiser. The decision stemmed from concerns about appraiser shortages and disagreements among industry participants on how to address the issue.

Joshua Rosner, managing director of Graham Fisher & Co., states: “This sounds like the early stages of a utility model..."