The Fannie/Freddie joint venture bolsters its information security programs with veteran hire.

Fannie and Freddie offer investors a wide range of summer deals.

Big-league housing groups, including the Mortgage Bankers Association and the National Association of Realtors, warned senators not to use the g-fee as “the nation’s piggybank.”

As the first Senate-confirmed head of domestic finance in nearly a decade, the former Fed economist could play a vital role in renegotiating the PSPAs between Treasury and FHFA.

Fannie and Freddie are likely to have raked in more than $5 billion combined in adverse market fees on refinances before FHFA Acting Director Sandra Thompson decided to shut the program.

Changes to Fannie’s loan agreements allow the company to more closely monitor compliance with OFAC rules and anti-money laundering and anti-corruption statutes.

The enterprise’s mid-summer transactions give investors a broad range of securities options.

Jerry Mauricio makes his interim CCO gig permanent.

FHFA and other federal financial regulators are still grappling with issues like whether the definitions of QMs and QRMs should remain identical.

One unintended consequence of the court ruling: The Biden administration got the greenlight to reform the GSEs without the help of Congress.