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Fannie Mae partners with Palantir to weed out fraud

Capital markets, Fannie Mae, Fraud, Mortgage technology, Secondary markets / Ricky Vasquez

Influential government-related mortgage investor Fannie Mae will be partnering with Palantir, a company involved in introducing more artificial intelligence to financial services, as its regulator and conservator steps up its fight against fraud. Peter Thiel, who owns stakes in Trump administration ally Elon Musk’s companies, founded the AI firm that will be helping identify patterns […]

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Trump says Fannie Mae to keep U.S. guarantee as public firm

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, GSE Reform, MBS, Securitization / Ricky Vasquez

(Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump said that the US government would retain guarantees and an oversight role over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac even as he pursues a public offering for the mortgage giants. I am working on TAKING THESE AMAZING COMPANIES PUBLIC, but I want to be clear, the US Government will keep its

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Trump: I’m taking Fannie and Freddie ‘public’ with implicit guarantee

Conservatorship, Donald Trump, Fannie Mae, FHFA, Freddie Mac, GSE Reform, GSEs, HWmember, Mortgage, Politics, Regulatory, Trump administration / Ricky Vasquez

President Trump last week promised a quick answer on whether to remove Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from government conservatorship. And it appears he’s already reached a decision: it’s time to take them ‘public.’ In a post published on Truth Social Tuesday night, Trump wrote: Our great Mortgage Agencies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, provide

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Pulte plans credit score move as legislators back tri-merge

Credit scores, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac / Ricky Vasquez

Bill Pulte, a key housing regulator, is poised to do something about high costs associated with credit metrics as two key legislators steer him away from one related move his predecessor considered. “Still not happy with FICO. We should be making some decisions on all related items in next 1-3 weeks,” Pulte said in an

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How President Trump can monetize the GSEs

Capital markets, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, GSE Reform, Secondary markets / Ricky Vasquez

Last week, during remarks to the MBA Secondary & Capital Markets event in New York City, FHFA Director Bill Pulte commented that he thought the estimates for the valuations for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were too low. Pulte then made clear that releasing the GSEs from conservatorship “is a decision for the President of

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Bessent weighs mortgage rate risk in potential release of GSEs

Conservatorship, Donald Trump, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, GSE Reform, Housing Market, HWmember, Mortgage Rates, Politics, Scott Bessent / Ricky Vasquez

Releasing the GSEs from conservatorship became a hot topic again this week after President Trump posted that he was giving it “serious consideration” on Wednesday, followed by a Bloomberg interview with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday. The timing of the president’s announcement took many by surprise, given rising bond yields, an uncertain trade war

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Trump’s GSE exit pursuit is complicated (and could be costly)

Department of the Treasury, Donald Trump, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, GSE Reform, HWmember, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Mortgage, Regulatory, Trump administration / Ricky Vasquez

President Donald Trump’s bombshell Truth Social post on Wednesday night sent the stock prices of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac soaring. But removing the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) from conservatorship after 16-plus years would be a complicated endeavor. And if they’re not removed carefully, costs for borrowers could spike. Trump’s announcement that he’s considering a public

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‘Don’t fix what’s not broken’: experts mull cons of GSE exit

Capital markets, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, GSE Reform, Secondary markets / Ricky Vasquez

While some policymakers have long pushed to release Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from government conservatorship, experts caution that a return to full privatization would be far from a fairy tale. Panelists Tuesday at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Secondary & Capital Markets Conference weighed the many downsides of the complicated, and increasingly unlikely move if

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What’s the goal of ending the Fannie and Freddie conservatorship?

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, GSE Reform, GSEs, HWmember, Mortgage, Mortgage Bankers Association, Regulatory / Ricky Vasquez

The government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) have been under the conservatorship of the federal government since the 2008 financial crisis, and for some time now many in the mortgage industry have thought this should end. But what is the goal of ending the conservatorships for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? GSE reform was up for debate at

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MBA’s Bob Broeksmit: ‘The CFPB is listening’ to industry concerns

Bob Broeksmit, CFPB, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Government Lending, GSE Reform, GSEs, HWmember, LendingLife, Mortgage Bankers Association, Origination, Regulatory / Ricky Vasquez

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) highlighted the deregulatory efforts of the Trump administration at its Secondary and Capital Markets Conference in New York this week, including work at the CFPB. But on the topic of releasing the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) from conservatorship, MBA president and CEO Bob Broeksmit said he isn’t expecting action anytime soon.

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Fannie Mae partners with Palantir to weed out fraud

Trump says Fannie Mae to keep U.S. guarantee as public firm

Trump: I’m taking Fannie and Freddie ‘public’ with implicit guarantee

Pulte plans credit score move as legislators back tri-merge

How President Trump can monetize the GSEs

Bessent weighs mortgage rate risk in potential release of GSEs

Trump’s GSE exit pursuit is complicated (and could be costly)

‘Don’t fix what’s not broken’: experts mull cons of GSE exit

What’s the goal of ending the Fannie and Freddie conservatorship?

MBA’s Bob Broeksmit: ‘The CFPB is listening’ to industry concerns

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