FHFA Looking to Lock-In Fannie/Freddie Liquidity Rules Dec 17 2020, 1:20PM
In
November, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) released a new regulatory
capital framework for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs). At the time FHFA
said the final rule fulfills Congress s
mandate in the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 that FHFA establish
risk-based capital requirements for the GSEs to ensure their safety and
soundness by increasing the quantity and quality of their regulatory capital
and reducing the pro-cyclicality of the aggregate capital requirements. This week the
agency
submitted for comments a companion rule regarding liquidity requirements
for the two companies.