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On June 25, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William J. Pulte ordered Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – the two government-sponsored enterprises that help keep mortgage dollars flowing in the ...

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Fannie and Freddie shares have soared this year as Trump mulls re-privatizing the mortgage finance companies. Both were taken over by the government in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.

William Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie and Freddie, ordered the agencies Wednesday to prepare a proposal for consideration of crypto as an asset for ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are government-backed enterprises that purchase mortgages on the secondary market, issue them as mortgage-backed securities (MBSs), and guarantee payments to investors.

Mortgage lenders working with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can now choose to use Vantage Score 4.0, while still keeping tri-merge credit checks on borrowers. “Effective today,” Federal Housing Finance ...

Trump’s insistence that he would keep the government’s “implicit guarantee” of Fannie and Freddie could also inhibit efforts to change the CBO’s stance.

Common shares of Fannie and Freddie have both surged more than 100% so far this year on speculation that Trump will reform their capital structures and release dividends back to common shareholders.

The conversation surrounding the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is as complex as it is consequential, and the journey toward privatization, if undertaken, will be gradual. The privatization ...

Officials with the Trump administration have said a public offering of Fannie and Freddie stock could raise as much as $30B to help seed a U.S. sovereign wealth fund.