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February 15, 2018

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Mortgage Insurers Lost Market Share Late in the Year, but Industry Gained Overall in 2017

After surging to an unusually high level of 26.6 percent in 2016, market share for the VA home-loan guaranty program eased to 24.1 percent last year… Read More

Freddie, Like Fannie, Sees 4Q Results Get Smacked Around Because of Tax Changes, Will Need a $312 Million Check from Treasury

Prior to release of 4Q17 results, the GSEs had an “account balance” of $103.0 billion with Uncle Sam: $291.4 billion of dividends paid to Treasury versus $188.4 billion of assistance received. Read More

CFPB Continues with its ‘Public Input Series,’ Wants Feedback on Supervisory Processes

This is the fourth in a series of RFIs announced as part of Acting Director Mick Mulvaney’s “call for evidence.” Read More

Behind the White House’s Request to Shore Up FHA Tech: 73 System Outages in 2017

The budget proposal calls for exempting “small lenders” – companies that generate about 20 percent of FHA business – from the IT fee. Read More

At $600K a Year, Fannie Mae CEO Tim Mayopoulos is Underpaid. GSE Worries About CEO ‘Succession’ Planning

No one has suggested publicly that Mayopoulos is unhappy with his pay, but in a new 10-K filing, Fannie worries that... Read More

Short Takes: Is Mel Watt Dropping Hints? / A Utility Model for Fannie and Freddie? / Refi Applications on the Rise (Ever So Slightly) / No (Permanent) Ginnie Prez, No FHA Chief / Uber Executive’s Foray Into Mortgages

Joshua Rosner, managing director of Graham Fisher & Co., states: “This sounds like the early stages of a utility model..." Read More

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