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The Bureau issued three items related to the transition from the London Interbank Offered Rate.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's websites contain information about resources and products, including the Enterprises’ jointly published London Interbank Offered Rate Transition Playbook.

The London Inter-Bank Offered Rate, is nearing its end, and set to expire sometime after 2021, with the Secured Overnight Financing Rate, or SOFR taking its place.

Market participants will look to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and their regulator for guidance on how to handle the shift to SOFR with minimal disruption to the US mortgage market.

LIBOR, the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate, is expected to discontinue sometime after 2021, but as the index used to set many adjustable mortgage rates, what will happen next?

LIBOR, the index for setting loan rates for reverse and ARM mortgages, is to be replaced by 2021… so what comes next?

The story of the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) scandal added another chapter in March as Freddie Mac brought suit against Barclays, Bank of America, Citibank, and several other institutions for investment losses related to alleged rate-rigging practices. The GSE filed March 14 against a dozen banks for ""punitive damages to the extent allowable by law"" as well as for the cost of attorneys and legal fees. A number for damages sought was not specified.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may have lost billions of dollars as a result of borrowing rate manipulation, according to a report from the Office of the Inspector General of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA-OIG). The banking world was rocked in late June as it was revealed that traders at Barclays spent years rigging the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor), a global interest rate at which banks lend money to each other. As those probes continue, the Wall Street Journal is now reporting Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may have sustained more than $3 billion in losses from the rate-rigging.