Freddie Mac

Feb 14 (Reuters) - The following is a list of scheduled U.S. agency bill sales from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for 2012. Freddie Mac said 3-month and 6-month bills will be auctioned every week. In addition, 1-month and 12-month auctions are ...  

Feb 13 (Reuters) - The following are scheduled sales announcement dates for potential Freddie Mac reference, Fannie Mae benchmark and FHLB global notes for 2012. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae said the dates below are windows of optional note issuance.  

The ink is not yet dry on a $25 billion national foreclosure settlement with five major banks, but Attorney General Martha Coakley has already trained her sights on two more targets. Coakley, on Friday, told the News Service that unless Fannie ...  

BloombergInformation on the Attorney General's SettlementLoanSafeIf your loan is owned by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, but serviced by the five mortgage servicers named above, you are NOT eligible for loan modification or refinancing under this settlement. Loans that are owned by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac are not ...What Will Illinois' $1B Robo-Signing Settlement Mean For You?ChicagoNow (blog)Our Opinion: Good first step to fix home crisisThe...  

Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. House of Representatives voted to require the Obama administration to more fully incorporate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into its annual budget. The chamber today voted 245-180 to require the federal government to ...  

Community banks and credit unions are preparing for a sea change in the world of mortgage financing as the Obama administration moves forward with plans to wind down the operations of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, The Washington Post reports. "There's a variety of possibilities out there . . . but we haven't seen the solution yet," Ann Grochala, with the Independent Community Bankers of America trade group, told the Post.  

You know that embarrassing relative you can't quite disown and most certainly can't control? It turns out Uncle Sam has a couple of those, known as Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Freddie and Fannie are a power couple all right, with seemingly unchecked power ...  

In the pilots, borrowers granted principal write-downs did not show a better performance than those granted forbearance. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taken over by the federal government in 2008 as home loan losses spiraled. The two companies ...  

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is urging mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to do more to prevent “unnecessary foreclosures,” including by reducing loan principal for homeowners struggling to pay their mortgages.  

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich had ties to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae during his time as speaker of the House from 1995 to 1999, according to a report in Bloomberg Businessweek. The timing adds to questions about the nature of his relationship with the home mortgage companies. Gingrich, then a U.S. representative from Georgia, visited Ireland in 1998 on a trip that was partly sponsored by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae...  

The head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, has previously said that concerns about losing taxpayer money had kept the two mortgage giants from reducing principal on struggling borrowers' loans.  

(Wall Street Journal) - House lawmakers passed legislation Tuesday to put the operations of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on the federal budget and change how the government calculates the cost of several federal loan programs. Fannie and Freddie ...  

Fresh off the news that government backed mortgage giant Fannie Mae knew about foreclosure fraud abuses being committed by the nation’s biggest banks as far back as 2003, but did nothing, Bloomberg News reported today that Fannie Mae also “pulled the plug” on a plan to help underwater homeowners in 2010. In a letter, Senate [...]  

"If credit standards just went back to normal ... They're scared that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will leave them holding a bag of bad mortgages. Fannie and Freddie buy mortgages from lenders. The mortgage giants hold some of them, and package others ...  

Daily MailHouse passes bill to put Fannie, Freddie in budgetReutersWASHINGTON Feb 7 (Reuters) - The US House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill that would put the cost of operations for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the federal budget in a bid to highlight the cost of the bailout of the two mortgage firms.Lawmakers Push Bill to Put Fannie, Freddie on BudgetWall Street JournalRepublicans Demand Accounting Change of Fannie Mae Bailout...