The agency has picked Houlihan Lokey Capital to help it identify any financial, regulatory or market risks in its path to take Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out of conservatorship.

Director Mark Calabria believes the revised structure and new hires will ensure FHFA continues to protect taxpayers from future bailouts and delivers on its obligation to create a competitive, liquid, efficient and resilient housing-finance market.

FHFA Director Mark Calabria is delivering on his promise to revamp the agency in preparation for the end of the GSE conservatorships.

The liquid assets required of nonbank seller/servicers will rise from 3.5 basis points to 4.0 bps for the unpaid principal balance of their enterprise servicing.

The CFPB plans to move away from the use of DTI as a criteria for a qualified mortgage, and instead opt for a pricing threshold.

SIFMA said the Ginnie-like market structure proposed by FHFA isn’t appropriate for conventional MBS. Moreover, the plan doesn’t address the continued misalignment of MBS issued by Fannie and Freddie.

A federal court sentenced Shirene Hernandez, a former Fannie Mae sales representative, to more than six years in prison for bribery.

Two former employees of FHLBank of San Francisco can pursue a lawsuit for breach of contract, a DC district court ruled this week.