All applications for LIBOR-based single-family and multifamily ARMs must be dated Sept. 30 or earlier or they won’t be eligible for sale to the GSEs.

Industry advocates point out that, unlike other forms of credit-risk transfer, private mortgage insurance stands in front of all other losses.

The liquid assets required of nonbank seller/servicers will rise from 3.5 basis points to 4.0 bps for the unpaid principal balance of their enterprise servicing.

The CFPB plans to move away from the use of DTI as a criteria for a qualified mortgage, and instead opt for a pricing threshold.

SIFMA said the Ginnie-like market structure proposed by FHFA isn’t appropriate for conventional MBS. Moreover, the plan doesn’t address the continued misalignment of MBS issued by Fannie and Freddie.

A federal court sentenced Shirene Hernandez, a former Fannie Mae sales representative, to more than six years in prison for bribery.

Affordable housing advocates say a high concentration of ownership by private equity firms makes residents of manufactured home communities vulnerable to unsustainable increases in rent or maintenance fees.

One of the key jobs of the Financial Stability Oversight Council is to make suggestions and recommendations to regulators to avoid SIFI designations, the FHFA director said.

Policy changes impacting 15% of GDP in an election year are inherently risky, according to Isaac Boltansky of Compass Point. The result, he said, is likely to be “a long and winding road” toward housing-finance reform.

The GSEs’ loan performance data excludes various loan types, such as ARMs and low-documentation loans, that performed poorly in the financial crisis. Nearly half of the GSE loans originated in 2006 and 2007 are expurgated from the data provided to CRT investors.