Mortgage lenders are fighting tooth and nail to stop the most affluent county in Maryland from implementing an anti-predatory lending ordinance that doesn’t seem quite as threatening to the secondary mortgage market. While lender and broker trade associations are waging their high-profile legal battle to stop Montgomery County’s Bill 36-04, Standard & Poor’s, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac appeared to shrug off the perceived regulatory threat with a business-as-usual posture.