The GSEs’ regulator has backtracked on its controversial rules for commingled securities.

Deciding whether the GSEs should use FICO or VantageScore or both turned out to be the easy part. The hard part is going to be the multiyear process of figuring out how to use the scores together.

A new request for information asks stakeholders whether expanding social bonds from multifamily to single-family will help or hurt borrowers and investors.

Digital assets specialist Silvergate Bank bolstered its liquidity with an FHLB advance after the implosion of crypto king FTX caused a run on the bank's deposits in the fourth quarter.

Minority-owned Protecdiv will partner with insurance giant Aon in credit insurance risk-transfer transactions. The collaboration gives the small re-insurer the scale to work with large institutions.

Industry protests convinced FHFA to reverse course and almost eliminate the fee Fannie and Freddie charge to guarantee one another’s securities.

Residential MBS investors say that, rather than publish a social index for their MBS, the GSEs should just disclose the data that goes into making that index.

Designating the appropriate SOFR-related benchmark rates for GSE products is one of the last major steps in the transition from LIBOR.

With the Fed and banks no longer supporting the MBS market, liquidity depends on small investors and nonbank financial institutions.

If the nation goes into recession, paper losses on Treasuries and MBS may deprive small community banks from accessing critical FHLBank advances.