​SUMMARY: The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is proposing to amend its prudential management and operations standards Rule (rule) to clarify that FHFA may establish prudential management and operations standards (Standards) as regulations as well as guidelines. The proposed amendments to the rule would also revise definitions and make other conforming changes. FHFA is not proposing to establish new Standards or to revise Standards already established.

SUMMARY: The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is correcting inadvertent typographical errors in the preamble published in the Federal Register on May 4, 2023, regarding amendments to its regulation governing prudential management and operations standards (the regulation) to correct certain references made to the proposed rule that should have been references to the existing regulation that FHFA is proposing to amend. There are no corrections to the proposed amendments to the regulation text or to the appendix.

SUMMARY: The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) requests comment on a proposed rule that would implement four liquidity and funding requirements for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises). The 2008 financial crisis demonstrated substantial weaknesses in the liquidity positions of the Enterprises. Liquidity and funding challenges were a significant contributing factor to establishment of the conservatorships in September 2008. The proposed rule builds on the improvements made to the U.S.

​SUMMARY: The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is making technical revisions to its regulation governing the Federal Home Loan Banks' (Banks) Affordable Housing Program (AHP) and to related provisions in the Community Support Requirements regulation, which were both amended by a final rule published on November 28, 2018. These technical revisions are consistent with FHFA's policy intent, as reflected in the preamble discussions of the 2018 final rule, and do not involve any policy changes.

DATES: This rule is effective July 1, 2022.

​SUMMARY: The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is adopting this final rule amending its Rules of Practice and Procedure and other agency regulations to adjust each civil money penalty within its jurisdiction to account for inflation, pursuant to the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, as amended by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015.

DATES: Effective January 28, 2020, and is applicable beginning January 15, 2020.

​SUMMARY: The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is adopting a final rule that amends its stress testing rule, consistent with section 401 of the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (EGRRCPA). These amendments adopt the proposed amendments without change to modify the minimum threshold for the regulated entities to conduct stress tests increased from $10 billion to $250 billion; removal of the requirements for Federal Home Loan Banks (Banks) subject to stress testing; and removal of the adverse scenario from the list of required scenarios.