FHFA applies a capital treatment to banks that differs from those used by federal banking regulators. The differences could limit banks’ ability to access Federal Home Loan Bank advances.
FHFA may have dealt with last year’s controversy over executive compensation at Fannie Mae, but it still has a long way to go to fix its in-house issues with executive compensation reviews.
The regulator proposed a more standard, nationwide definition of “colonia” to make it easier for the enterprises and lenders to identify communities where their activities are eligible for credit under DTS.