The Federal Housing Finance Agency announced today that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s caps for multifamily lending will remain at $36.5 billion for 2017. The determination was based on the agency’s projection that the overall size of the multifamily finance market will remain roughly the same as it was in 2016. Multifamily loans in designated affordable and underserved segments will remain excluded from the caps.
ABA, state associations urge Congress to repeal CFPB’s overdraft rule
ABA joined 52 state bankers associations in expressing strong support for a resolution of disapproval introduced by lawmakers that would invalidate the CFPB’s final rule on overdraft protection.