The regulator has amended the capital rule to improve the capital treatment of credit-risk transfers and reduce the size of the leverage buffer for the GSEs.
Almost all the temporary seller flexibilities FHFA put in place because of the pandemic have either been retired or incorporated into the normal selling guides.
The Underserved Mortgage Markets Coalition has put together a list of actions the GSEs can take to meet their obligations under FHFA’s duty-to-serve program.
Biden’s FHFA nominee Sandra Thompson has made it clear that the agency can’t end the conservatorships without help from the Departments of Treasury and Justice and, most importantly, Congress itself.
The creation of a U.S. sovereign wealth fund could grease the skids for an end to the conservatorships of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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