The GSEs’ regulator buys access to executive compensation data at the enterprises’ peers.

Critics say the amendments correct some of the flaws in the rule finalized last December, but it’s still far too conservative when compared to historic losses at the GSEs.

An OIG report finds the GSEs’ expected cost from pandemic-related forbearances has climbed about 30% in the past year.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s proposed amendments to the capital rule bring the mortgage giant back to the CRT table.

Dan Coates, senior advisor to Acting Director Sandra Thompson, will take over as head of the Division of Research and Statistics.

Market forces and regulatory issues outside the control of Fannie and Freddie may make it difficult for them to achieve the proposed affordable housing benchmarks.

UMMC argues that the GSEs’ three-year duty-to-serve plans are wholly inadequate to address the current affordable housing crisis.

Successive OIG reports have found chronic deficiencies in FHFA’s internal controls and in its supervision of the GSEs. The latest report is more of the same.

A new standardized structure for capital and risk-management disclosures will make it easier to compare Fannie and Freddie to one another and to other large financial institutions.

Fannie issues its first CAS deal in nearly a year and a half, following a decision by FHFA Acting Director Sandra Thompson to double the capital relief available for CRT transactions.