Some GSE watchers are predicting the White House won’t pick a FHFA director nominee until after the mid-term elections. We understand that acting director Sandra Thompson, a career regulator, has begun meeting with trade groups...

Big-league housing groups, including the Mortgage Bankers Association and the National Association of Realtors, warned senators not to use the g-fee as “the nation’s piggybank.”

As the first Senate-confirmed head of domestic finance in nearly a decade, the former Fed economist could play a vital role in renegotiating the PSPAs between Treasury and FHFA.

Fannie and Freddie are likely to have raked in more than $5 billion combined in adverse market fees on refinances before FHFA Acting Director Sandra Thompson decided to shut the program.

Changes to Fannie’s loan agreements allow the company to more closely monitor compliance with OFAC rules and anti-money laundering and anti-corruption statutes.

The enterprise’s mid-summer transactions give investors a broad range of securities options.

Fannie cites study showing that CMBS prepayment penalties more than cover the prepayment costs for investors.

Jerry Mauricio makes his interim CCO gig permanent.

FHFA and other federal financial regulators are still grappling with issues like whether the definitions of QMs and QRMs should remain identical.

MBA's Bill Killmer said the goal is to prevent the g-fee tax from becoming a “zombie pay-for that roams the earth forever.”