Tag Archives: Freddie Mac

The mortgage portfolios of both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac expanded slightly to start the year. Will this have an effect on winding the portfolios down while they are under the FHFA's conservatorship?

How much credit risk did Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac offload with their respective transactions announced this week?

Why is the housing market expected to have such a solid year when the estimates for Q1 economic growth are being downwardly revised? Freddie Mac has the answer.

Andrew Davidson, President of Andrew Davidson & Co., Inc., says that the GSEs should be striped down to the functions that promote standardization, liquidity, and access to credit, and adopt the best governance structures for those functions using these four methods.

What is the outlook for the GSE shareholders' appeal of a lawsuit against the government over the sweep of GSE profits into Treasury that was previously dismissed in the D.C. District Court? Hamish Hume, partner with Boies, Schiller & Flexner, discusses all points of the case.

The enhancements may not be the changes the advocates and lawmakers were looking for, but they are still aimed at achieving the best borrower outcomes.

America's housing finance system is in what some call a "dysfunctional limbo." Not only is it underperforming, but it is also outdated and in desperate need of a complete revamping among its mission, activities, products, and services.

The government claimed in 2012 that the GSEs were financially weak. Newly unsealed depositions may contradict this, however.

Per the direction of their conservator and regulator, the FHFA, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were instructed not to conduct loan-level reviews for technical compliance with TRID when conducting their credit-risk transfer transactions.

Mortgage interest rates continued their downward pattern this week, reaching their lowest level since February of last year.