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Trump’s ambitious Fannie, Freddie overhaul faces hurdles

By Pete Schroeder
July 26, 2019, Reuters

President Donald Trump’s administration faces a growing list of hurdles that could scuttle its ambitions to remove U.S. mortgage giants Fannie Mae and …

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Lower Rates Crimp Value of Banks’ Mortgage Servicing Rights

By Ben Eisen
July 22, 2019, The Wall Street Journal

Lower interest rates generally help banks’ mortgage businesses. Except when they don’t.

The value of mortgage servicing rights, which are …

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U.S. reform plan for Fannie, Freddie seen by Sept.: housing regulator

By Pete Schroeder and Richard Leong
July 17, 2019, Reuters

The Trump administration’s hotly anticipated blueprint for overhauling mortgage guarantors Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may not be published until …

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Former Freddie Mac CEO says GSEs should be regulated like utilities

By Kathleen Hawley
July 16, 2019, HousingWire

Two weeks into his new gig as a senior fellow at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, Donald Layton, who was the …

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FDIC Plan Would Ease Requirement for Banks Selling Mortgage Securities

By Lalita Clozel
July 16, 2019, The Wall Street Journal

A regulator proposed easing a hurdle for banks to sell pools of home-mortgage obligations, as part of an effort to …

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Fed Group Proposes Adjustable Rate Mortgages Using Libor Replacement

By Daniel Kruger
July 11, 2019, The Wall Street Journal

A financial industry group is proposing to use a new benchmark designed by the Federal Reserve for adjustable-rate mortgages, replacing …

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Push to Overhaul Fannie, Freddie Nudges Up Mortgage Costs

By Andrew Ackerman and Ben Eisen
June 25, 2019, The Wall Street Journal

Investor anxiety about a Trump administration push to overhaul housing finance is showing up in prices in …

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Lawmakers spar over whether Fannie, Freddie are SIFIs

By Hannah Lang
June 25, 2019, American Banker

While lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agreed Tuesday that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are “too big to fail,” they …

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Wall Street insider Craig Phillips leaves Treasury without Fannie, Freddie reform

By Kathleen Howley
June 24, 2019, HousingWire

Craig Phillips, Department of the Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s top housing advisor and the Trump administration’s point person on reform of Fannie Mae …

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