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Washington, D.C. – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today sent to the Federal Register an interim final rule amending its Affordable Housing Program (AHP) regulation. The changes to the AHP regulation will help preserve homeownership for low- and moderate-income families by allowing the use...

Washington, D.C. – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) released its first Mortgage Metrics Report today. The report presents key performance data on 30.4 million first lien residential mortgages with outstanding balances totaling $4.4 trillion serviced on behalf of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...

PageContent Washington, D.C. – FHFA Director James B. Lockhart today announced the appointments of new non-executive chairmen of the Boards of Directors of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. John A. Koskinen has agreed to serve as the non-executive chairman of Freddie Mac. Philip A. Laskawy will serve as...

PageContent Washington, D.C. – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has transmitted to the Federal Register a Notice of "Establishment of a New Independent Agency." This provides formal public notice of the existence of the Agency, its purpose and the chapter of the Code of Federal Regulations...

​The Board of Directors of the Federal Housing Finance Board (Finance Board) adopted an amendment on July 23, 2008 to the consent order to cease and desist (consent order) against the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago (Chicago Bank), which was originally issued on October 10, 2007. The amendment...

​WASHINGTON, DC — James B. Lockhart, Director of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) today released “Mortgage Markets and the Enterprises in 2007,” an annual research paper that reviews developments in the primary and secondary mortgage markets and the financial performance of...

The Board of Directors of the Federal Housing Finance Board (Finance Board) today approved a request by the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas (Bank) to amend its previously approved capital structure plan (Plan). The Bank is amending its Plan to enable it to repurchase stock held to satisfy a member...

WASHINGTON, DC — OFHEO Director James B. Lockhart announced that OFHEO has sent to the Federal Register a final rule for loss severity calculations under OFHEO’s Risk-Based Capital (RBC) Regulation. The final rule corrects certain deficiencies in the formulas used to calculate risk-based capital...

​See original full release PDF below. ​Corinne Russell (202) 414-6921 Stefanie Mullin (202) 414-6376

Washington, D.C. – On behalf of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO), Director James B. Lockhart accepted the Certificate of Excellence in Accountability Reporting (CEAR), the highest standard of federal fiscal accountability reporting. The CEAR is awarded by the Association of...