The Federal Housing Administration today published a final rule removing Libor as an approved index for adjustable-rate mortgages and replacing it with the Secured Overnight Financing Rate as the approved index for newly originated forward ARMs, effective March 31. According to the agency, the rule also codifies the same changes made for newly originated reverse home equity conversion mortgage ARMs, makes clarifying regulatory changes to the requirements for monthly adjustable HECM ARMs, and establishes a 10 percentage points maximum lifetime adjustment cap for monthly adjustable HECM ARMs.
Senate draft bill budgets $324M for CDFI Fund
The Senate Appropriations Committee has released a draft spending bill that allocates $324 million for the CDFI Fund in fiscal year 2026, according to an analysis of the legislation by the CDFI Coalition.











