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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Trump administration’s hotly anticipated blueprint for overhauling mortgage guarantors Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may not be published until …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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SEC Weighs Whether to Regulate Facebook’s Libra
By Dave Michaels and Lalita Clozel
July 13, 2019, The Wall Street Journal
U.S. securities regulators are examining whether Facebook Inc.’s planned cryptocurrency should fall under their oversight, a development …
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Trump blasts Bitcoin, Facebook’s Libra, demands they face banking regulations
By Makini Brice and Eric Beech
July 11, 2019, Reuters
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday criticized Bitcoin, Facebook’s proposed Libra digital coin and other cryptocurrencies and demanded that companies …
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Debt Limit Deadline Accelerates, Research Group Finds, Raising Pressure on Congress
By Richard Rubin
July 8, 2019, The Wall Street Journal
The U.S. government could exhaust its ability to pay its bills in the first half of September, according to a …
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U.S. parries E.U. jab on CCP oversight
By Costas Mourselas
July 1, 2019, Risk
Tensions have flared between European and U.S. supervisors on the subject of cross-border clearing house oversight after acerbic comments from one of Europe’s …
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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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Will Fannie and Freddie get a new sibling?
By Andrea Riquier
June 18, 2019, MarketWatch
After over a decade of stagnation, the race is finally on to release mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from government control …
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Fannie, Freddie government guarantee should be limited: U.S. housing finance chief
By Katanga Johnson
June 13, 2019, Reuters
The head of the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) said on Thursday that Congress should create a “limited” explicit guarantee for government-sponsored …
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Fannie-Freddie Shares Slide as Mnuchin Dims Investors’ Hopes
By Saleha Mohsin and Austin Weinstein
June 10, 2019, Bloomberg
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin made clear that freeing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from U.S. control won’t happen without an …
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