Housing finance reform

Fannie Mae’s treatment of a reperforming loan package helped drive up earnings by almost 41% to $4.5 billion, delivering a stronger dividend to Treasury ahead of a leadership change.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac remain in conservatorship nearly a decade after the financial crisis, and there’s still no end in sight.

Whoever succeeds current Director Mel Watt will have a front-and-center role in efforts to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The announcement comes as Fannie Mae promoted David Benson to serve as president of the government-sponsored enterprise.

If the GOP keeps the Senate, the Pennsylvania Republican, who has pressed for bigger changes to the Dodd-Frank Act than recently enacted regulatory relief legislation, could be the next banking chair. Here's what that means for credit unions.

The California Democrat would have more of a bully pulpit as chair of the Financial Services Committee, but some say she could take a pragmatic approach to passing banking legislation.

If the GOP keeps the Senate, the Pennsylvania Republican, who has pressed for bigger changes to the Dodd-Frank Act than recently enacted regulatory relief legislation, could be the next banking chair. Here's what that means.

The Trump administration's plan to end the conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac marked its first effort to solve a problem left over from the financial crisis, but ultimately raised more questions than it answered.

Instead of shrinking the GSEs, the housing regulator is letting them expand into a host of new products and programs.

Meet the new housing finance reform plan, same as the old ones. While that gives it legs, it also presents big challenges.