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Freddie Mac Portfolio Up $2.4 Billion

Freddie Mac has released its latest Monthly Volume Summary, which provides information on Freddie Mac's mortgage-related portfolios, securities issuance, risk management, delinquencies, debt activities and other investments. This latest ...

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Collateral Damage

As the pool of appraisers continues to shrink, the mortgage industry is searching for solutions and technology is helping the cause. This story was originally featured in the January issue of MReport.

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Veros Introduces UCD-compliant Solution

Veros Real Estate Solutions, a Santa Ana, California-based technology provider, announced Wednesday a new solution that satisfies the GSEs’ Uniform Closing Dataset requirements, which go into effect next week. “We are pleased to announce our new VeroDATAFI for lenders to be able to comply with the new UCD requirements and address the system and process challenges that September 25th will bring,” said Charles Rumfola, SVP of Strategic Initiatives at Veros. Veros already has a strong relationship with the GSEs. In fact, Rumfola said, “Veros played an integral part in successfully implementing the Uniform Collateral Data Portal (UCDP) for the GSEs, and we are looking to build on that success for UCD.”

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FHFA and Treasury Urge Panel Not to Modify Decision

In February, the D.C. Circuit panel gave the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) a win over the allocation of profits from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to the Treasury. This affirmed a lower court’s ruling that actions taken under the FHFA’s conservatorship of the GSEs cannot be challenged in court, however Fannie and Freddie shareholders sued the two for agreeing to the deal. Now, the FHFA and Treasury are urging the D.C. Circuit not to modify its ruling.

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Fostering Diversity and Inclusion in the Industry

The second-annual Five Star Diversity Symposium, a day-long event focused on advancing the conversation on diversity within the mortgage industry, featured keynote addresses from diversity leaders as well as roundtable discussions and panels. The Diversity Symposium includes representatives by several key companies and government agencies within the mortgage industry.

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GSEs Work to Assist Underserved Markets

On Monday, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac released their proposed Duty to Serve (DTS) plans. The purpose of the plan is to better serve some persistent affordable housing problems in the U.S. DTS is a Federal Housing Finance Agency plan which requires Fannie and Freddie to increase the availability of mortgage financing in rural housing, manufactured housing, and affordable housing preservation in order to serve very low- to moderate-income families.

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