Mortgage Finance Reform Will Only Be Nibbling at The Edges of the GSEs for the Foreseeable Future
October 21, 2011
The status quo in the MBS market suffocating domination by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae isnt likely to change for the next five years, or longer, according to industry experts at this weeks ABS East conference in Miami sponsored by Information Management Network. Although a number of industry groups have offered proposals similar to the third option outlined by the Treasury Department in its reform white paper a more competitive market of issuers backed by private capital that issue MBS with backstop guarantees from the government those proposals are far from uniform, said Laurie Goodman, senior managing director at...