FHFA, Fannie, Freddie Examine Numerous Approaches To Risk Sharing; More Transactions Planned for 2014
December 13, 2013
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have made major steps in credit risk transfer in 2013 with more where that came from in 2014, but a senior Federal Housing Finance Agency official says the government-sponsored enterprises, at the FHFAs direction, wont rely on a single risk-transfer method going forward. In written testimony prepared for the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committees final hearing on housing finance reform this week, Wanda DeLeo, the FHFAs deputy director, division of conservatorship, provided an overview of the GSEs risk-transfer transactions to date, as well as the pros and cons of each transaction type. Pricing on all the transactions this year has been...