The Federal Housing Finance Agency today finalized a proposal making changes to the Federal Home Loan Bank Affordable Housing Program

In a comment letter to the Federal Housing Finance Agency on Friday, the American Bankers Association offered feedback on a proposal that would create a new framework for risk-based capital requirements for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to ensure that the GSEs could cover losses and continue operations in the event of stress.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency today issued an update on the common securitization platform it is developing to issue the Single Security, a mortgage-backed security to be issued by both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Advances from Federal Home Loan Banks during 2017 increased from the year before by 3.7 percent to $732 billion, the Federal Housing Finance Agency said today.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today released a new loan-level set collected through its National Survey of Mortgage Originations.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency announced today that it will maintain Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s caps for multifamily lending at the current level of $35 billion for each GSE.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency in its Annual Housing Report today said that Freddie Mac failed to meet two of its four affordable housing goals — those for low and very-low income buyers purchasing single-family homes — in 2017. The GSE met its low-income refinancing goal for single-family homes and the goal for home purchases in low-income areas. Fannie Mae achieved all ...

The Federal Housing Finance Agency today proposed several changes to the housing goals for the Federal Home Loan Banks.

As Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continue moving toward a single security, the Federal Housing Finance Agency today issued a proposed rule directing the GSEs to harmonize their programs, policies and practices that affect the prepayment rates of to-be-announced-eligible mortgage-backed securities.

As part of the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s “single security initiative” to standardize the terms for mortgage pass-through certificates issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, holders of existing related GSE securities will have an opportunity to exchange them for the new standard security.