GSE shareholders lost their latest battle against the government’s preferred stock purchase agreement as the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear their case last week. After a lower court ruled against claims arguing the validity of the Treasury sweep of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac profits, investors hoped to plead their case to the high court. Plaintiffs, including Fairholme Funds, Perry Capital and other shareholders, filed a writ of certiorari last year asking the Supreme Court to intervene in their cases. Both Perry and Fairholme have large holdings of the GSEs’ preferred shares. Back in 2014, a judge for the District of Columbia U.S. District Court dismissed claims brought against the government saying that the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 gives...
The Securities and Exchange Commission has broadened the scope of an exemption for registering as an investment company to include sponsors of multiple securities that hold whole mortgages.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shareholders who are contesting the government’s net worth sweep may have few options left now that the Supreme Court of the United States has rejected their plea for appeal of lower court rulings that went against them.
A few years back, Pinto and AEI unveiled a new mortgage product called the Wealth Building Home Loan, which was intended to provide an affordable mortgage option for low- and middle-income borrowers.
Acting Ginnie Mae President Michael Bright: “If they don’t have money to make principal and interest payments to investors every 20th day of the month, then Ginnie MBS are in trouble.”
Ocwen disclosed this warning: “Non-compliance with the laws and regulations of India or the Philippines could result in restrictions on our operations in these countries, fines, penalties or sanctions or reputational damage.”
General Electric is exploring the possibility of a settlement with the Department of Justice to resolve an ongoing federal investigation of its discontinued pre-crisis subprime mortgage business, known as WMC.
Pete Carroll, an executive at CoreLogic, noted that many Democrats in Congress will not support a housing finance reform bill unless such provisions are included.
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