The Federal Housing Finance Agency announced today that it has raised Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s 2016 caps for multifamily lending from $31 billion to $35 billion. The agency based its decision on increased estimates of the size of the U.S. multifamily market. Multifamily loans in designated affordable and underserved segments will remain excluded from the caps.
ABA to Senate Banking: Refine Clarity Act’s stablecoin yield language
ABA and a coalition of financial trade associations asked the Senate Banking Committee to refine the proposed payment stablecoin yield language in the Clarity Act, which prohibits crypto platforms from paying interest or yield to bank deposits on...








