Fed Proposal Deems Government-Backed MBS as High Quality Asset But Unclear About GSE MBS
January 6, 2012
MBS issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government will continue to maintain a zero-risk weighting under the Federal Reserves proposed supervisory rules for large bank holding companies, but that wont necessarily include Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac MBS. The Fed proposal includes a wide range of issues such as capital, liquidity, credit exposure, stress testing, risk management and early remediation. It applies to bank holding companies with assets of $50 billion or more and non-bank institutions that could pose systemic risk to the financial system. The proposal reflects substantially all of the...