The “near-term efforts” that the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s 2013 Conservatorship Scorecard take aim at include an update of mortgage insurance master policies and formulating eligibility standards, as well as developing a set of “aligned standards” for force-placed insurance, the FHFA announced last week. The announcement comes a month after the Finance Agency abruptly overruled a plan pushed by Fannie to buy force-placed insurance directly from a number of insurance companies at an estimated 30