Ronald McCord, the former president of First Mortgage, faces 24 counts of bank fraud, money laundering and making a false statement.

Industry stakeholders believe this is a sign the GSEs are on track to undergo their long-expected public offerings.

After Sept. 15, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will no longer accept LIBOR loan applications. Moreover, the FHFA and the GSEs expect all loan purchases linked to the London benchmark to cease by yearend.

Most of the concerns about the new regulation hinge on how much profit the GSEs can make under the bumped-up capital levels. Most industry observers appear to be on the side of “not enough.”

A Florida lawyer is charged with swindling distressed borrowers out of their homes, and then filing fraudulent bankruptcy petitions to prevent the GSEs from executing lawful foreclosures.

The platform is used to estimate the future performance of the loans owned or guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

According to former Fannie Mae CFO Tim Howard, the re-proposed capital requirements are almost 40 times the average of that indicated by stress tests conducted on the GSEs last year.

The move suggests the GSEs’ public offerings — estimated by some to be worth as much as $200 billion — may take place in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

If the FHFA’s assessment is correct, mortgage servicers can withstand a substantially deeper economic downturn than originally thought.

In two separate cases filed by GSE shareholders against the government, the Court of Federal Claims meted out different results.