Former Regulator Agrees with FHFA's Captive Ban Decision
February 19, 2016
Captive insurance companies don’t belong in the Federal Home Loan Bank system, according to the former chair of the Federal Housing Finance Board, the system’s previous regulator. “Simply put, the Federal Housing Finance Agency got it right with this regulation,” said Ronald Rosenfield, who served as chair of the FHFB in 2005, prior to the creation of the FHFA. During his three-year tenure, there were some captives joining, but he said they were doing so at a much slower pace. The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s recent decision to ban captives from joining the system has caused some uproar among industry groups who opposed the final ruling, but Rosenfield thinks it was the right thing to do.