FHFA: GSE Common Securitzation Platform On Track
May 10, 2013
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are on track in their conservator-mandated effort to create a common mortgage-backed security securitization platform even as the GSEs also draft standard contracts and disclosures for the MBS market of the future, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency. The progress report that the FHFA issued last week was more of an outline of public comments it has received so far on what the agency and the GSEs have already proposed on the scope, design and construction of a common securitization platform and the progress of a CSP prototype. The design is deliberately flexible so that the long-term ownership structure may be adjusted to meet the goals and direction that policymakers set forth for housing finance reform, the report said. Importantly, FHFA plans on instituting a formal structure to allow for ongoing input from industry participants.