Federal Reserve Vice Chair Michael Barr plans to recommend retaining capital requirements for unrealized losses on MBS held in bank portfolios. This provision was in response to the 2023 banking crisis.

Federal regulators are set to re-propose Basel III capital requirements for large banks. Federal Reserve Vice Chair Michael Barr will recommend eliminating a proposed 20% risk-weighting add-on for mortgages.

Previous industry changes — the Uniform Mortgage Data Program, the single security initiative and the transition away from the London Interbank Offered Rate — took longer than expected to put into place and caught some stakeholders flat-footed.

The Federal Reserve responds to industry criticism by back-pedalling on some of the more aggressive capital requirements in the proposal.

The selection of Diana Reid means Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and FHFA are now all run by female executives.

GSE securitizations by Chase soared during August.

Freddie issuance totaled $35.67 billion in August versus $34.36 billion at Fannie — a rare instance in which Freddie was the larger issuer. Year to date, though, Fannie is still the leader. (Includes two data tables.)

Experts recommend industry stakeholders start working with the new credit scores if they want to be prepared when the transition from FICO Classic to FICO 10 T and VantageScore 4.0 goes into effect.

The FHLBanks last year agreed to voluntarily raise their contributions to affordable housing programs from 10% of net income to 15%, but they balked at Treasury’s suggestion to increase that to 20%.

New appraisal process will replace nine forms with a single, dynamic, data-driven form that works for all single-family residential properties.