Federal Regulators Agree to Work with Congress to Reduce Agency Market Share of Mortgage Financing
May 3, 2013
Federal regulators said they will collectively work with Congress to reduce the agency market share of MBS issuance. The members of the Financial Stability Oversight Council said completion of the qualified-residential mortgage rule will also help increase non-agency activity. The council recommends that the Treasury Department, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Federal Housing Finance Agency continue to work with Congress and other stakeholders to develop and implement a broad plan to reform the housing finance system, the FSOC said in its 2013 annual report, released late last week. Tobias Adrian, a vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and contributor to the report, said...