Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac issued separate guidance to their mortgage servicers last week designed to continue the conservator-mandated effort to complement the servicing policies of the two government-sponsored enterprises and to develop a consistent framework for assessing servicer performance. The updated servicing policies seek to harmonize compensatory fee structures, servicer violations and remedies, and servicer terminations and transfer of servicing between Fannie and Freddie. Fannie’s and Freddie’s announcements also include...