Low interest rates and excess liquidity drove down demand for FHLBank advances and ate into profits during the early part of the year (Includes three data charts.) Read More

Who better than a 30-year industry veteran to head the government-sponsored enterprise? Read More

Industry insiders argue over whether the credit-risk transfer programs are overpriced catastrophic insurance for the GSEs or a cheap form of capital. Read More

Variation margins will reduce counterparty risk in to-be-announced MBS transactions by requiring buyers and sellers to post margins for any change in prices before settlement. Read More

Malloy Evans, a 17-year Fannie veteran, takes charge of the company’s massive single-family business, effective immediately. Read More

Jason Griest has been with Freddie for the past eight years. Prior to that, he held capital markets or securitizations positions at Fannie Mae, Bank of America and JP Morgan. Read More

Several of the regulatory and management measures undertaken to mitigate the impact of the pandemic are slowly being eased. Is that a sign markets are improving? Read More

A so-called stressed default rate on millions of residential loans originated between 1990 and 2019 suggests the risks that precipitated the global financial crisis were around long before that, and are growing in the current market. Read More