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There was big news early Thursday morning when Fannie Mae announced that it will be paying the Treasury a whopping $59.4bn...

Cha-ching. Fannie Mae, the US housing finance group bailed out by taxpayers nearly five years ago, will soon hand the US...

ROUND-UP FT markets round-up: "Encouraging macro data releases from China and Germany offered further support to equity...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have inadvertently tipped off US banks and other big mortgage investors to more loan data than...

Freddie Mac, the US mortgage giant taken into government conservatorship during the financial crisis, will pay a $7bn...

The US Congress does not get much done these days. But gridlock is working just fine for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. They...

The value of apartment blocks could drop more than 10 per cent in many US cities and some commercial landlords could face...

Are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac about to get caught up in a whole new area of partisan controversy? The government-controlled...

The Obama administration nominated Mel Watt, a Democratic congressman for North Carolina, to run the Federal Housing Finance...

That mooing sound you hear in the distance is a cash cow. There has been quite the transformation in the market’s perception...

“Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.” Uncle Sam may find himself whispering St Augustine’s words now that Fannie...

Fannie Mae earned a record net income of $17.2bn in 2012 as the recipient of the biggest bailout in US history returned to...

Close to 1m struggling US homeowners could be eligible to have their mortgage payments cut under a new government programme,...

Much is often made of how shrewd the US has been in bringing its financial system through the crisis relatively smoothly,...

This isn’t the first time since the crash that ministers have tried to stimulate the housing market, is it? There have been...

George Osborne has played down the idea that he is building a British version of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, both of which...

George Osborne is edging Britain closer to an American-style government-backed mortgage market by promising to underwrite...

Freddie Mac has sued more than a dozen banks and the British Bankers’ Association, alleging it suffered “substantial losses”...

The US government will create a public utility that will standardise and process new mortgage-backed securities in a step...

The profitability and dominance enjoyed by US-backed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will limit policy makers’...

A leading US regulator is poised to water down rules for derivatives trading that critics argue will allow global banks to...

Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2013-1; Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2013-2; and Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2013-3. Sliced and diced packages...

An elite group of private issuers are stepping up sales of bonds backed by US residential mortgages, without waiting for new...

US banks are suffering a squeeze on mortgage profits after a bumper two years, adding to pressure on the earnings of Wells...

PNC Financial, the second-biggest regional bank in the US by revenue, set aside $254m for the repurchase of soured loans as...

The US consumer regulator will unveil new home mortgage rules on Thursday that provide lenders with a greater shield from...

For a while at least, manipulating Libor was a profitable business for UBS. But a record $1.5bn fine to settle US and UK...

The alleged manipulation of Libor by banks may have cost Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac more than $3bn in uncollected interest...

The US Treasury, it appears, has had enough of being a shareholder. After selling the last of its AIG stake last week, it...

You won’t hear the phrase “subprime mortgage” on a Wall Street securitisation desk any time soon, but you might start...

US banks are holding more mortgage loans on their balance sheets rather than send them to the government-backed housing...

If you are an American refinancing your mortgage at today’s historically low interest rates, you might celebrate closing the...

Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac: Turning the American Dream into a Nightmare, by Oonagh McDonald, Bloomsbury Academic, RRP£55/$85,...

Should investors place their faith in politicians or the central bank? The stock market took a look at a US election result...

US banks are slowing down the recovery by refusing to lend to creditworthy mortgage borrowers, said Ben Bernanke on...

Investors in the US are marking down the prices of securities backed by mortgages written before the financial crisis,...

Fannie Mae expects to report a net profit this year, its first annual profit since US home prices hit their peak in 2006,...