For several years now, the GSE has been migrating its data storage and analysis functions to Amazon’s cloud, but the full extent of that relationship is not really known...
Ed Pinto and Patrick Lawler of the American Enterprise Institute argue that the capital standards, even under Calabria’s more conservative rule, are already too weak.
Also, because Thompson is a Democratic appointee, she likely is leaning toward the option of using the government-sponsored enterprises to improve the lot of low-income borrowers.
In general, the proposed rule would reduce the required capital for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by decreasing the size of the prescribed leverage buffer...