Fannie Mae is set to issue a credit risk transfer deal tied to a pool of mortgages with an unpaid principal balance of $17.0 billion.

FHFA removed mention of DEI from a key GSE evaluation standard.

“The totality of indicators in recent months suggests that neither aggregate demand in the economy nor inflation pressures eased by as much as was previously expected,” the economic team wrote.

The revisions establish some ground rules that will apply if Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are ever released from conservatorship.

The hedge fund billionaire predicts Treasury will write off its senior preferred shares in the GSEs and exercise its warrants for 80% of their common stock.

The new scorecard highlights modest changes in the regulator's priorities for the GSEs.

Lenders supported the regulator’s decision to lower some of the goals from the 2022-2024 rule.

Because Fannie’s book of business is by far the larger, it’s more impacted by the stability capital buffer than Freddie.

Fannie Mae projects that its issuance of credit risk transfer transactions in 2025 will be similar to issuance in 2024.

Much of the decline was the result of a change in how Freddie Mac classifies loans subject to a repurchase claim for which the seller has provided a remedy.