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FHFA Extends Response Period for Credit Risk Transfer Request for Input
Washington, D.C. – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today announced that it is extending the response period for the agency's Single-Family Credit Risk Transfer Request for Input (RFI) by 45 days. The input period was previously set to close on August 29, 2016, 60 days after the RFI was...
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FHFA Announces Results of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Dodd-Frank Act Stress Tests
Washington, D.C. – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today released a report providing the results of annual stress tests Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) are required to conduct under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act). The Dodd-Frank...
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FHFA Issues 2015 Report on Guarantee Fees
Washington, D.C. – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today released its annual report on the single-family guarantee fees charged by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises). The report discusses guarantee fees charged in 2015 and provides a five-year perspective on guarantee fees dating...
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Agencies Finalize Rule Exempting Certain Commercial and Financial End Users from Initial and Variation Margin Requirements
Joint Release Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Federal Housing Finance Agency Farm Credit Administration Five federal agencies today announced a final rule exempting certain commercial and...
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FHFA Indices Show Little Movement in Interest Rates
Washington, DC – Nationally, interest rates on conventional purchase-money mortgages were nearly flat from May to June, according to several indices of new mortgage contracts. The National Average Contract Mortgage Rate for the Purchase of Previously Occupied Homes by Combined Lenders Index was 3...
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FHFA House Price Index Up 0.2 Percent in May
Washington, DC – U.S. house prices rose in May, up 0.2 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from the previous month, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) monthly House Price Index (HPI). The previously reported 0.2 percent increase in April was revised upward to reflect a 0.3...
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FHFA Details Plans and Timelines for the Single Security and Common Securitization Platform
Washington, D.C. – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today released An Update on Implementation of the Single Security and the Common Securitization Platform . The Update details the progress made to date and describes the expected milestones that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises...
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FHFA Releases Data on Non-performing Loan Sales
Washington, D.C. – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today released its first report providing information about the sale of non-performing loans (NPLs) by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises). The Enterprise Non-Performing Loan Sales Report includes NPL sales data through May 31...
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FHFA Details Progress on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Credit Risk Transfer Programs
Washington, D.C. – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today issued two documents designed to enhance public awareness of, and involvement in, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s (the Enterprises) credit risk transfer programs. The Single-Family Credit Risk Transfer Progress Report provides an...
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FHFA Indices Show Mortgage Interest Rates Decreased in May 2016
Washington, D.C. – Nationally, interest rates on conventional purchase-money mortgages decreased from April to May, according to several indices of new mortgage contracts. The National Average Contract Mortgage Rate for the Purchase of Previously Occupied Homes by Combined Lenders Index was 3.70...