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Inside The GSEs

June 10, 2011

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Experts: No GSE Action in Congress Until ‘13

Don’t hold your breath waiting for a legislative remedy in Congress to reform and/or replace Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The expectation on the Hill and throughout the industry is that meaningful action on GSE reform won’t occur until 2013 at the earliest, industry sources tell Inside The GSEs. Read More

Bank, Thrift FHLB Advances Decline in 1Q

The use of Federal Home Loan Bank advances among their bank and thrift members fell overall during both the first quarter of 2011 and on a yearly basis, with two of the three largest users showing a drop-off larger than the overall industry’s year-over-year rate of decline, according to the Inside Mortgage Finance Bank Mortgage Database. Read More

Atlanta FHLBank Names Dozier its New EVP, Chief Business Officer

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta announced it has appointed Robert Dozier as the Bank’s new executive vice president and chief business officer. Read More

Freddie Reorganizes, Reshuffles Executives

Freddie Mac made a major reshuffle of its executive suite this week with its announcement of new leadership in each of its three lines of businesses and the creation of a new division at the GSE, as well as a number of other senior leadership changes.With the move, Freddie consolidates the previously separate Single-Family Credit Guarantee, Single-Family Portfolio Management and Operations & Technology divisions into the new Single-Family and Operations & Technology division. Read More

Fannie Requires ‘Quality Contact’ with Borrowers

Servicers must achieve “quality right-party contact” (QRPC) with borrowers as a means of determining a delinquent homeowner’s willingness and ability to pay his mortgage under new standards Fannie Mae has laid out regarding the management of loans in danger of default.Fannie’s issuance of servicing standards this week is in compliance with the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s Servicing Alignment Initiative announced in late April to establish consistent mortgage loan servicing and management requirements for servicers acting on behalf of Fannie and Freddie Mac. Read More

OIG Says It’s Evaluating the FHFA’s Supervision

The watchdog agency charged with overseeing the regulator of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Banks said it has numerous audits and evaluations of the Federal Housing Finance Agency in the pipeline.According to two separate but related reports by the Office of the Inspector General of the FHFA issued late last month, the FHFA-OIG is in the midst of a total of 17 ongoing or planned reviews of the Finance Agency. Read More

FHFA’s New FOIA Regulation Now Includes the Inspector Gen.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency has issued an interim final regulation with a request for comments on changes to its existing Freedom of Information Act regulations. In its notice, published in the May 23 Federal Register, the FHFA said it is updating its existing FOIA regulations to include the FHFA Office of Inspector General. The FHFA-OIG did not yet exist when the Finance Agency’s original FOIA regulations were issued in 2009. Read More

CBO: Fair-Value Accounting Ups GSEs’ Costs

In light of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s federal conservatorship status and the resulting control by the Treasury Department, the two GSEs are “effectively part of the government” and their operations should be reflected in the federal budget, according to the Congressional Budget Office.CBO has concluded that using a fair-value approach to estimate Fannie and Freddie’s subsidy costs is the best way to give Congress and taxpayers the most accurate accounting information. Read More

GSE Loss Mitigation Activity Declines in 1Q

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s home retention activity declined for the most part during the first quarter, according to the latest Federal Housing Finance Agency’s Foreclosure Prevention and Refinance Report.Total home retention efforts dropped to 143,977 during the first three months of the year, down 20 percent from the fourth quarter, while loan modifications in the period also declined to 86,201, down 28 percent. Read More

GSE FOIA Bill Sponsor ‘Optimistic’ of Passage

The sponsor of legislation that would make Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac subject to the Freedom of Information Act’s government transparency provisions told Inside The GSEs this week he is optimistic his bill has a “real fighting chance” of passage in the House.Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-UT, said his bill, H.R. 463, The Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Transparency Act of 2011, has “picked up momentum” following a hearing two weeks ago, and the headlines it produced, in which the GSEs’ regulator panned the bill as potentially harmful to Fannie and Freddie. Read More

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