The GSEs will use the capital planning process to calculate their stress capital buffer, which is set at a minimum of 0.75% of adjusted total assets.

Starting next year, investors and other industry stakeholders will have a more granular view of the capital status of Fannie and Freddie.

Donna Corley, one of the most influential women in housing finance, joins the exodus of senior executives leaving the GSEs.

The new rule may clear up some of the confusion surrounding how Fannie and Freddie calculate their capital requirements under the ERCF.

The first Black woman to serve as head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency squeaked through the confirmation with just one Republican vote, Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota.

Some experts now say Federal Reserve purchases of agency MBS will fall to zero by September.

The Senate voted 49-46 to confirm Sandra Thompson as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. She is the first Black woman to serve in the role.

A Fannie Mae survey showed 94% of the 188 lenders asked feel that efforts by the GSEs to modernize appraisals are valuable.

Despite a significant decline in indictments and convictions, the FHFA IG’s Office of Investigations secured more than six times as much in restitution than in the prior period.