RBS, which is effectively owned by the British government, still faces liability in private label security (PLS) matters tied to Greenwich Capital, a U.S. subsidiary that at one time was the largest nonprime issuer in the nation.

Investors Unite is urging the FHFA not manage Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as "non-profits."

At the FHFA, Singh was involved in strategic planning to help attract private capital to the mortgage industry, a key goal of former Acting Director Edward DeMarco…

The number of mortgage companies in California rose 7.8 percent on a sequential basis. Nationwide, there are 392,896 federally registered mortgage loan officers…

The amendment would prohibit the GSEs from channeling cash to the NHTF, which was established under the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008.

Rosner of Graham Fisher & Co. also wants to see the use “stringent methods” to price guarantees separate from the GSE's.

How much stock to insiders at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac actually own?

Notably absent from Watt’s first major policy speech as FHFA director last month was any mention of the housing trust funds.

Treasury and the FHFA not only acted “arbitrarily and capriciously” in executing the Third Amendment to the Preferred Stock Purchase Agreements with the GSEs, the agencies ignored “salient data,” including Fannie’s and Freddie’s tens of billions of dollars in deferred tax assets.

The “arm’s length transaction” policy of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac prohibit property sales to non-profits that resell to the original homeowner.