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Inside The GSEs

August 18, 2023

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FHLB Profits Continue to Grow as Advances Ebb

The shifting market for FHLB advances has reshuffled the list of the largest FHLBank borrowers. (Includes three data charts.) Read More

FHFA Loses Historic Shareholder Lawsuit

Key flubs by defense witnesses may have convinced the jury that the Treasury Department and FHFA had ulterior motives when they agreed to the net worth sweep. Read More

Market Split on GSE Pricing Scheme

While many mortgage industry stakeholders want the GSEs’ current capital rule to be changed, others believe it’s a good compromise. Read More

Credit Score Reform: Tweaking the Timeline

Congress and the mortgage industry seem on opposite sides when it comes to the timetable for credit score reform. That leaves FHFA in the middle. Read More

Trade Groups Oppose GSE Tenant Protections

FHFA’s RFI on tenant protections attracted 3,522 comments, the vast majority from tenants voicing support. Industry groups argued that the economics of rent control just don’t work. Read More

FHFA Issues Clarification of Advisory Bulletin

A new advisory bulletin provides the answers to a series of abstruse accounting questions as a way of clarifying an earlier bulletin. Read More

Fannie’s Capital Markets Team Gets Busy

With a nonperforming loan sale, a reperforming loan sale and a social bond transaction, Fannie livened up an otherwise slow year. Read More

GSEs Ace 2023 Stress Tests

According to their 2023 Dodd-Frank stress tests, Fannie and Freddie would remain profitable even in the worst financial depression of the modern era. Read More

MCT Taps Former Fannie Exec as Technology Head

Steve Pawlowski, a key player in Fannie Mae’s technology development, has moved to Mortgage Capital Trading. Read More

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