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Inside The GSEs

April 2, 2021

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GSE Business Volume Glides Downward in Early 2021

Slumping purchase-mortgage business drove Fannie/Freddie MBS volume lower in the first quarter, but securitization of refinance loans remained robust. (Includes two data charts.) Read More

FHFA OIG Finds Conflicts of Interest, CSS Risk and More

Fannie Mae CEO Hugh Frater violated conflict of interest rules not once but at least three times, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s Office of Inspector General. Read More

GSE Stocks: One Set of Facts; Two Stories

Veteran stock analyst Richard Bove upgraded the common shares of Fannie and Freddie to “hold” from “sell.” Last week, analyst Bose George had downgraded the stocks to “underperform.” Read More

Calabria Softens Rhetoric; Critics Still Bristle

GSE watchers criticized FHFA Director Mark Calabria’s failure to acknowledge the agency’s role in the mortgage meltdown in 2008. Read More

Trade Groups Ask Treasury/FHFA to Rescind Parts of the PSPA

Independent mortgage bankers continue to argue that GSE caps on risk-layering and limits on mortgages for second homes and investment properties will harm borrowers and lenders alike. Read More

Claims Dismissed Against Some in GSE Bond Price Rigging Case

A district court in Louisiana granted a motion to dismiss claims against some defendants in an antitrust case involving bonds issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Read More

Ishbia Criticizes GSE Limits on Investment Property Loan Purchases

Mat Ishbia, the CEO of the nation’s largest table-funder United Wholesale Mortgage, said FHFA limits on GSE purchases of second home and investment property mortgages are already adding to consumer costs. Read More

Mortgage Industry Looks to SCOTUS and the Collins Case

Anxiety builds over when and what the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of FHFA and whether investors should be recompensed for the net worth sweep. Read More

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