Disagreements about the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s new pricing grids for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac highlight differences between Democrats and Republicans.

Freddie's profitability remains a tale of loan loss reserves, with net income rising and falling according to the size of the provision for losses.

Fannie's secret sauce in 1Q: dramatically lower provisions for credit losses...

Newly introduced legislation, if passed, would rescind FHFA's latest revisions to GSE pricing.

Chase Home Finance dethroned Wells Fargo as the largest GSE servicer and the big servicers — both banks and nonbanks — expanded their market share in the first quarter of 2023. (Includes two data charts.)

FHFA has asserted that most of the changes to the GSEs’ loan-level pricing adjustment grids are risk based or meant to meet the GSEs’ capital requirements.

The chair of the Senate Banking Committee wants FHFA to examine the implications of the Federal Home Loan Banks becoming the lender of last resort for struggling financial institutions.

The head of single-family collateral risk management at Fannie Mae took a deep dive on the topic in a recent blog post.

FHFA does not adequately track employee benefit information or monitor the withholding on employee cash awards.

The regulator will require additional sign-offs and documentation before the FHLBanks can change their internal market risk models.