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      <title>GSE Roundup</title>
      <author>dhollier@imfpubs.com</author>
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        <![CDATA[GSEs delay UCD timeline; updates on Pulte’s legal battles with Trump opponents; Fed’s MBS holdings continue to dwindle; Opendoor to partner with Fannie’s Title Acceptance Program.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:51:43 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>FHFA Tightens Payment Process for Legal Services</title>
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        <![CDATA[An OIG audit of legal services payments at FHFA found that the agency spent $15.6 million on outside counsel over the 12 months ending March 2025. FHFA will follow recommendations from the OIG to improve practices involving legal services.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:51:21 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>GSE Shareholder Lawsuit Set for Appeal in April</title>
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        <![CDATA[Plaintiffs in Fairholme Funds v. FHFA, a landmark case in which a jury awarded GSE shareholders $612 million for damages resulting from the net worth sweep, seek more restitution on appeal.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:50:24 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>GSE Roundup</title>
      <author>dhollier@imfpubs.com</author>
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        <![CDATA[AI controversy; FHFA faces FOIA lawsuit; Fannie prices tender offer; new CRT deals; Freddie creates disaster hotline.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:45:34 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>OIG Report Details 2023 Spike in Multifamily Fraud</title>
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        <![CDATA[Between 2022 and 2024, Fannie’s open multifamily fraud investigations spiked from 14 to 193. In the same interval, actual fraud findings went from 3 to 87.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.insidemortgagefinance.com/articles/236354</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:32:32 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Pulte in the Crosshairs for Mortgage Fraud Referrals</title>
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        <![CDATA[After months of investigating Trump critics over allegations of mortgage fraud, FHFA Director Bill Pulte increasingly finds himself the target of investigations into possible episodes of misconduct and the misuse of power.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:36:21 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>FHFA Appeals Verdict in GSE Shareholder Lawsuit</title>
      <author>dhollier@imfpubs.com</author>
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        <![CDATA[The agency is appealing a jury verdict awarded to GSE shareholders for losses related to the net worth sweep. FHFA is also facing a lawsuit tied to an untimely response to a FOIA request.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.insidemortgagefinance.com/articles/235377</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 14:52:09 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>GSE Roundup</title>
      <author>bivey@imfpubs.com</author>
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        <![CDATA[Michael Hutchins agrees to extend term at Freddie; new general counsel at Freddie; senator seeks answers on FHLBank reform efforts; former FHFA chief operating officer loses appeal.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.insidemortgagefinance.com/articles/235458</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 14:49:13 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Critics Denounce Pulte’s Mortgage Fraud Allegations</title>
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        <![CDATA[Attorneys representing those accused of mortgage fraud by FHFA Director Bill Pulte are calling for an investigation into what they say is abuse of his office.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:09:09 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Court Dismisses RMBS Suit Against Former Freddie Execs</title>
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        <![CDATA[An Ohio court found that Freddie’s rosy statements in 2007 about its exposure to subprime and Alt A loans weren’t misleading, in part, because there was no universal definition of those terms at the time.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:01:19 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Condo Associations Push for Leniency in GSE Lending</title>
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        <![CDATA[Eligibility requirements put in place by the GSEs in the wake of the 2021 collapse of a condo tower in Florida continue to hobble sales and burden condo associations with high insurance and maintenance costs.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 11:39:44 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>GSE Roundup</title>
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        <![CDATA[Fannie revises policy for loans subject to a temporary rate buydown plan; Former Fannie employees sue for defamation; Freddie creates new board position; GSE shareholders lose appeal in one of the last net worth sweep lawsuits.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 13:04:14 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Fannie Mae Hit With Class-Action Over Employee Terminations</title>
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        <![CDATA[A group of U.S. citizens of Indian background sued Fannie Mae for discrimination after being terminated for alleged unethical behavior in relation to the company’s charitable grants program.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:07:16 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>GSE Roundup</title>
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        <![CDATA[New Fannie exec; another tender offer; OIG fraud investigation; Fannie board member buys stock.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.insidemortgagefinance.com/articles/234240</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 15:44:06 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>GSE Shareholders in Yet Another Appeal</title>
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        <![CDATA[Next month, plaintiffs in <em>Fisher v. United States</em>, a takings case challenging the GSE net worth sweep, will take a second stab at an appeal.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 14:33:42 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Fannie Faces Accusations of Foreclosure Fraud</title>
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        <![CDATA[Plaintiffs in a New York class-action say Fannie and four other defendants systematically overcalculate the interest charged to borrowers during foreclosure proceedings.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:03:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Fannie Updates Foreclosure Time Frames</title>
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        <![CDATA[The time frames for servicers to complete routine foreclosures will expand in 17 states and shorten in four others.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:02:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Calabria Has Some Recommendations for Congress</title>
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        <![CDATA[Even if lawmakers can’t agree on how or whether to release the GSEs from conservatorship, there are incremental steps they can take, according to former FHFA Director Mark Calabria.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2025 13:58:10 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Partial Ruling for Freddie in Insurance Lawsuit</title>
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        <![CDATA[Freddie Mac failed to win a complete summary judgment against an insurer who declined to pay claims related to a 2008 SEC investigation. The judge’s ruling makes it more likely the case goes to trial and discovery.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.insidemortgagefinance.com/articles/232689</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2024 15:28:26 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Second Insurance Firm Settles With Freddie on D&amp;O Claims</title>
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        <![CDATA[AXIS Insurance became the second entity to settle in a Freddie lawsuit alleging that some D&O insurance providers refused to properly reimburse the GSE for legal expenses incurred during the 2008 crisis.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.insidemortgagefinance.com/articles/232419</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 14:44:25 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Calabria: Second Trump Term Could End Conservatorship</title>
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        <![CDATA[Although a Republican victory in November might revive efforts to release the GSEs from conservatorship, this would likely be a multi-year effort, according to the former FHFA director.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:17:58 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Skepticism Springs Eternal When It Comes to GSE Reform</title>
      <author>dhollier@imfpubs.com</author>
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        <![CDATA[Housing finance aficionados may doubt Fannie and Freddie will ever exit conservatorship, but that doesn’t stop them from telling you what that exit would look like.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2024 15:25:15 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Fannie Examines ‘Heirs’ Property’ Issues</title>
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        <![CDATA[The mortgage giant worked with the Housing Assistance Council to estimate the scale of the tangled title problem and begin to look for solutions.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.insidemortgagefinance.com/articles/231689</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2024 16:05:46 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Fairholme Attorney Takes a Victory Lap</title>
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        <![CDATA[Despite the added cost and delay, Hamish Hume said it was advantageous for the plaintiffs’ team to have to hold a second trial after the first one ended in a hung jury.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:55:17 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Saga of Fairholme Funds v. FHFA Ends</title>
      <author>dhollier@imfpubs.com</author>
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        <![CDATA[Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shareholders may finally get some modest compensation for FHFA’s decision to allow Treasury to seize all of the profits of the government-sponsored enterprises.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 15:18:22 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Fannie Surveys Mortgage Execs on Condo Lending</title>
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        <![CDATA[A Fannie survey highlights how sentiments have changed among condo lenders after Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac imposed new restrictions in the wake of the Surfside tower collapse in 2021.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.insidemortgagefinance.com/articles/230281</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2024 14:11:11 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>More Legal Convolutions for GSE Shareholders</title>
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        <![CDATA[Despite winning a massive jury award in August, GSE shareholders are still squabbling with the government over how those damages should be distributed.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2024 15:57:08 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>GSEs Find Ways to Profit in the Third Quarter</title>
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        <![CDATA[Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac revenues ticked up in the third quarter, but an increase in net expenses cut into profits. Those expenses included damages and interest awarded to shareholders in <em>Fairholme v. FHFA</em>. (Includes data table.)]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2023 14:59:36 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Litigation: A Mixed Bag for GSE Shareholders</title>
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        <![CDATA[The GSEs’ shareholders racked up one win and one loss last week in their legal battle to overturn the net worth sweep.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.insidemortgagefinance.com/articles/229279</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2023 16:40:52 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>FHFA Responds to FOIA Request on Employee Settlements</title>
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        <![CDATA[Documents show FHFA entered into 36 settlement agreements between January 2019 and September 2021 to resolve employee disputes.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2023 16:38:45 -0400</pubDate>
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