Fannie Mae’s new mortgage insurance pilot announced last week is troubling to mortgage insurers who continue to question the GSEs’ blurring of lines between primary and secondary markets. Fannie’s Enterprise-Paid Mortgage Insurance program is billed as just a way to give lenders another option for obtaining mortgage insurance for high loan-to-value loans. Under the pilot, Fannie will arrange primary MI coverage for existing private MIs or a panel of affiliated reinsurers. Fannie said the new option allows the GSE to streamline the operational requirements of participating lenders, increase the certainty of coverage and better manage Fannie’s counterparty risk. Fannie officials explained that they expect traditional mortgage insurance to be the primary cover for loans with LTVs over 80 percent.