The number of home loans backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that are 60 days or more past due dropped from 1.6 percent to 1.4 percent at the end of the first quarter, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s foreclosure prevention report released today.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should consider whether the rules it has written since 2011 are “consistent with the law, clear, and whether they promote the financial interests of consumers in a strong, vibrant, and innovative market that offers the variety of financial products and services that consumers want and value,” the American Bankers Association said in a comment letter to the bureau today.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have sold 90,921 nonperforming loans as of December 31, 2017, with a total unpaid balance of $17.4 billion, according to the fifth Non-Performing Loan Sales Report released today by the Federal Housing Finance agency.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency today issued a proposed rule 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. 

Core principles for reforming Fannie and Freddie.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency today released a progress report on its goals for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac while the GSEs are in federal conservatorship.

Since the Federal Housing Finance Agency launched a credit risk transfer program for GSEs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2013, the enterprises have transferred $69 billion in credit risk to private investors, amounting to about 3.2 percent of $2.1 trillion in unpaid principal balance, the FHFA said today.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac today announced that the new common security they have been developing -- the uniform mortgage-backed security, or UMBS -- will be implemented on June 3, 2019.

Big changes are coming to the residential mortgage-backed securities market in 2019. Will you be ready?

The Federal Housing Finance Agency today finalized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s 2018-20 affordable housing goals.