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Small Fry Continue to Grow In GSE Servicing Market

Four of the top five players in Fannie/Freddie servicing recorded declines in their portfolio during the third quarter, while small and mid-sized shops gained ground. (Includes two data charts.) Read More

Calabria Seeks to Limit Activities of the GSEs

The FHFA director has proposed a new rule that would ensure stakeholders have a say when the GSEs consider new products or activities. Read More

GSEs Say COVID Policies Should Be Permanent

One of the few good things to come out of the COVID crisis is that the GSEs can push forward alternative ways of doing business. Read More

SCOTUS Receives Last Major Brief in Collins Case

Aaron Nielson said the high court’s recent decision in Seila v. CFPB actually supports his contention that FHFA’s structure is legitimate.

Committee Chair Urges ‘Automatic’ Forbearance

More than 31,000 seriously delinquent borrowers have yet to take advantage of forbearance, according to James Clyburn, chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis. Read More

Forbearance Rates Decline. What About Delinquencies?

A majority of forbearance loans were not delinquent and a small number of loans were delinquent but not in relief, that means… Read More

A Shift from Short- to Long-Term Debt

Fannie issued $167.49 billion in short-term debt through Aug. 31, compared to $550.47 billion for all of 2019. Meanwhile, its long-term debt issuance expanded to $165.72 billion from $21.55 billion. Read More

James Johnson, Former Fannie CEO, Dies at 76

Many mortgage industry veterans credit Johnson for Fannie’s emergence in the 1990s as one of Washington’s most powerful lobbying titans. Read More

Fannie/Freddie Multifamily Roundup

Both enterprises continue to structure deals. Read More

Inside The GSEs

October 23, 2020

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Small Fry Continue to Grow In GSE Servicing Market

Calabria Seeks to Limit Activities of the GSEs

GSEs Say COVID Policies Should Be Permanent

SCOTUS Receives Last Major Brief in Collins Case

Committee Chair Urges ‘Automatic’ Forbearance

Forbearance Rates Decline. What About Delinquencies?

A Shift from Short- to Long-Term Debt

James Johnson, Former Fannie CEO, Dies at 76

Fannie/Freddie Multifamily Roundup

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