According to the CFPB’s own estimate, as many as 957,000 loans would be affected by the expiration of the patch.

Industry feedback on the re-proposed GSE capital rule underscores the need for an explicit and permanent government guarantee on Fannie’s and Freddie’s existing and future MBS.

At least some of the advantage enjoyed by the Treasury market over agency MBS can be attributed to structural differences in the two markets and how they evolved, according to Federal Reserve economists.

One of the key functions of the GSEs is to pool risk nationally for the benefit of underserved borrowers, and any capital framework for the enterprises has to build in this cross-subsidy, according to housing advocates.

That leaves the supervision of these cloud contractors up to Fannie and Freddie themselves.

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Still, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), chair of the House Financial Services Committee, urged the Federal Housing Finance Agency to kill the LLPA outright.

As funding sources dried up late in the first quarter, members sharply increased their FHLB advances. But when financial markets stabilized in the second quarter, these short-term loans weren’t replaced. (Includes two data charts.)

Models using the most likely assumptions about retained earnings, capital requirements and expected returns suggest the GSEs would have unsuccessful public offerings.

The FHFA, which serves as the regulator and conservator of the GSEs, lacks the authority to supervise Fannie’s and Freddie’s third-party cloud service providers.