Will the new, forward-looking, credit-sensitive version of the Secured Overnight Financing Rate serve as the index rate for credit-risk transfer and MBS transactions?

After a lapse at the beginning of the pandemic, commercial PACE lending and the associated ABS offerings have grown steadily.

Progressives call on Biden to pick Sandra Thompson, the first African American and the first woman to head the agency, for the top position. Not incidentally, she may also be the most qualified for the job.

Thompson puts her stamp on the agency, even while rumors suggest the Biden administration could replace her with a permanent director.

FHFA's proposal, last week, to improve the capital treatment of CRT has already reaped dividends.

Acting Director Sandra Thompson undoes some of the organizational changes initiated by former-Direct Mark Calabria.

The mortgage industry’s warnings that the restrictions placed on the GSEs would tighten credit availability for less qualified borrowers were not lost on the Biden administration.

The changes would reduce Fannie’s and Freddie’s capital requirements and increase incentives to issue CRT transactions.