At the direction of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are reformulating their Social Index to make it more attractive to investors while still protecting the privacy of borrowers.
The government-sponsored enterprise said it has identified a significant number of fraudulent appraisals tied to mortgages originated between 2021 and 2023.
A coalition of most of the major mortgage industry participants says FHFA and the GSEs should be more transparent about how they assessed and validated the new credit score models.
Several commenters argued that any capital requirement on commingled securities might interfere with the fungibility of the uniform mortgage-backed security.
Some SWFs in other countries have extensive ownership interests in major corporations and sweep much of their profits into state coffers.
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