Fannie in the Amazon Cloud, Helping to Address Risks December 10, 2021 Dennis Hollier The mortgage giant is tied by an alphabet soup to the even larger cloud giant.Read More
Fannie Multifamily Digitizes Rent Rolls December 10, 2021 Dennis Hollier The new system should be able to gather most of the rent roll data directly from popular property management systems.Read More
Fannie Closes Its Largest CIRT Deal of the Year December 9, 2021 Dennis Hollier Fannie Mae’s latest credit insurance-risk transfer transaction included 20 reinsurers taking on $31.7 billion in unpaid principal balance.Read More
The Fannie/Freddie Stock Speculation Game Has Ended December 9, 2021 Dennis Hollier Only two of the top-10 Fannie shareholders have increased their holdings in the past quarter. The rest have cut their exposure...Read More
New GSE Loan Limits Drive Up Fannie, Freddie Common December 9, 2021 Dennis Hollier Fannie and Freddie stock prices jumped (only briefly) on news the two entities will be able to buy loans worth close to $1 million in 2022.Read More
GSEs Refine Affordable Refi Programs December 9, 2021 Dennis Hollier Freddie Mac will implement a higher income threshold for its Refi Possible product for low-income borrowers beginning Jan. 31.Read More
Short Takes: A Stake in Aurora / A Difficult Task / The Mortgage SPAC Club / Fed Chair Powell: About Those MBS Purchases… / A Promotion at GR December 3, 2021 Paul Muolo and Dennis Hollier A headcount on mortgage SPACs...Read More
Federal Reserve to Consider Speeding Up MBS Taper December 2, 2021 Dennis Hollier Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says inflation has been high enough long enough to warrant a quicker reduction in the central bank’s MBS purchases. Time for mortgage bankers to worry?Read More
GSEs Continue to Shed Nonperforming Loans December 2, 2021 Dennis Hollier The latest NPL sales at Fannie and Freddie add to the more than 130,000 of these loans they’ve unloaded from their portfolios since 2014.Read More
Fannie Goes Inhouse and Names a New CFO December 2, 2021 Dennis Hollier Controller Chryssa Halley to run financial team at the mortgage giant.Read More