Reporting and reimbursement procedures are expected to change immediately at the government-sponsored enterprises.

FHFA Acting Director Sandra Thompson has quashed her predecessor's plans to expand the footprint of CSS to include GSE competitors.

Thompson was more elusive about the question of whether LLPAs should be eliminated...

In the old days (pre-subprime crash), it was common for a depository to buy a nonbank lender/servicer via a “franchise” deal...

In her first long-form interview since taking over as FHFA acting director, Sandra Thompson insisted that expanding the GSEs’ books of business won’t make them riskier.

FHFA announced the suspension of the caps on the GSEs’ purchase of second-home and investor-property mortgages on Sept. 14. By Sept. 15, the price of these loans jumped more than a percentage point.

The FHFA’s inspector general found that the regulator’s supervision of the GSEs is based on policy statements not standards prescribed by Congress.

Sen. Pat Toomey, R-PA, and NAMB President Kimber White each grade the brief performance of FHFA’s acting director.

Freddie’s refinance-based green MBS program leapfrogs past Fannie’s more mature program based on newly built homes. (Includes data chart.)

FHFA’s decision to repropose certain provisions in the capital framework of the GSEs lures Fannie back to the CRT fold.