Fisher, who joined FHFA in 2019 under former Director Mark Calabria, helped create the new division and played a key role in his plan to reduce the agency’s reliance on data and analysis...

Fewer refinancings mean Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s amortization incomes from prepayments are in decline. (Includes data chart.)

Market forces and regulatory issues outside the control of Fannie and Freddie may make it difficult for them to achieve the proposed affordable housing benchmarks.

UMMC argues that the GSEs’ three-year duty-to-serve plans are wholly inadequate to address the current affordable housing crisis.

Successive OIG reports have found chronic deficiencies in FHFA’s internal controls and in its supervision of the GSEs. The latest report is more of the same.

A new standardized structure for capital and risk-management disclosures will make it easier to compare Fannie and Freddie to one another and to other large financial institutions.

Fannie issues its first CAS deal in nearly a year and a half, following a decision by FHFA Acting Director Sandra Thompson to double the capital relief available for CRT transactions.

Housing stakeholders liked FHFA’s plan to require Fannie and Freddie to develop equitable housing finance plans, but they also recommended changes.

The enterprise will use limited powers of attorney to handle unrecorded assignments for non-MERS loans.

Wards of the Uncle Sam since the fall of 2008, these days the two government-sponsored enterprises are considered instrumentalities of the executive branch with little prospect of their conservatorships ending.