Congress and the mortgage industry seem on opposite sides when it comes to the timetable for credit score reform. That leaves FHFA in the middle.

A new advisory bulletin provides the answers to a series of abstruse accounting questions as a way of clarifying an earlier bulletin.

FHFA’s RFI on tenant protections attracted 3,522 comments, the vast majority from tenants voicing support. Industry groups argued that the economics of rent control just don’t work.

With a nonperforming loan sale, a reperforming loan sale and a social bond transaction, Fannie livened up an otherwise slow year.

According to their 2023 Dodd-Frank stress tests, Fannie and Freddie would remain profitable even in the worst financial depression of the modern era.

Steve Pawlowski, a key player in Fannie Mae’s technology development, has moved to Mortgage Capital Trading.

Community awareness of and reckoning with systemic racism following the BLM protests in 2020 appears to have led lenders to reduce the interest rate gap between Black and white borrowers.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac combined cranked out $3.71 billion in STACRs and CAS notes in the second quarter, an 81.1% jump from the first three months of the year. (Includes data chart.)

Responses to FHFA’s RFI on GSE pricing almost unanimously condemn the capital requirements put in place by former Director Mark Calabria.

A jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia this week handed GSE shareholders their first major win in their effort to recover some of their investment in Freddie and Fannie stocks.