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10 Dec 2020, 9:14 am
The issues being assessed in this case are whether the structure of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) violates the separation of power doctrine, and whether “the courts must set aside a final agency action that FHFA took when it was unconstitutionally structured and strike down the statutory provisions that make FHFA independent. [read post]
17 Apr 2017, 9:43 am
On February 6, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Hensarling circulated a memorandum to the House Financial Services Committee Leadership Team describing key revisions to the Financial Choice Act. [read post]
1 Dec 2016, 7:40 am
The Act would impact all federal spending financed by fees, fines, and penalties currently administered by federal agencies, and instead require that Congressional appropriations approve this spending. [read post]
8 May 2013, 3:05 pm
Mel Watt (D-N.C.) to be the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the conservator for the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. [read post]
8 May 2017, 1:51 pm
Last Thursday, by a party-line vote of 34-26, the House Financial Services Committee approved the Financial CHOICE Act (H.R. 10) proposed by Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling. [read post]
14 Mar 2012, 2:12 pm
The primary obstacle is Edward DeMarco, the Acting Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, who, as Isaiah Poole explains, "is a Bush administration holdover who is still in his position because Republicans in the Senate blocked the person President Obama nominated as his replacement. [read post]
27 Jul 2011, 8:52 am
On the one hand, the Dodd-Frank Act attempts to de-emphasize the role of credit rating agencies in federal regulations and, on the other hand, the Act further entrenches the government-sponsored oligopoly of the big three credit rating agencies. [read post]
6 Oct 2020, 10:32 am
Facts of the Case In 2008, Congress enacted the Housing and Economic Recovery Act (HERA), which created the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) as an independent agency to oversee the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac). [read post]
9 Mar 2010, 12:41 pm
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has filed a new motion in its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) that would force the Obama administration to release documents related to political contributions made by the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. [read post]
28 Jun 2010, 9:09 am
The "Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act" calls for the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an independent agency to be housed at the Federal Reserve, with a broad mandate to regulate consumer financial services of virtually all types. [read post]
9 Dec 2020, 4:00 am
Mnuchin, the justices will consider a lawsuit by shareholders of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac who are challenging a 2012 agreement between the Treasury Department and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (which acts as a conservator for Fannie and Freddie). [read post]
9 Dec 2020, 4:05 pm
Shareholders in the company have challenged both the constitutionality of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which Congress created to oversee the two companies, and the FHFA’s 2012 agreement with the Treasury Department, which the shareholders say “nationalized” Fannie and Freddie. [read post]
14 Apr 2011, 5:20 pm
Chairman Bachus specifically associated himself with testimony by Fed General Counsel Scott Alvarez that, unlike the various other types of risk retention, which all involve the acquisition of an asset by the sponsor, the GSEs' risk exposure is in the form of an unfunded guarantee, which would not satisfy the risk retention requirements of the proposed rules.SEC Director of Corporation Finance Meredith Cross said that the SEC shares Chairman Garrett’s concern over the… [read post]
10 May 2024, 6:45 am
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a notice of decision to reinstate California’s Clean Air Act (CAA) waiver for its Advanced Clean Car program. [read post]
3 May 2022, 11:55 am
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) recently announced that for residential mortgage loans to be sold to Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac with application dates on or after March 1, 2023, the lender must present a Supplemental Consumer Information Form (SCIF) to collect information on the applicant’s language preference. [read post]
15 Apr 2011, 10:30 am
The Women in Housing and Finance (WHF) hosted a panel last week with two key members of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB’s) implementation team, Peggy Twohig and Steve Antonakes.Twohig, formerly the Treasury Department’s Director of the Office of Consumer Protection, is the Assistant Director for Non-Bank Supervision. [read post]
29 Dec 2009, 7:24 am
The House bill leaves regulatory discretion to effect a Glass-Steagall-like separation of banking and finance, bestowing the interagency council with asset sale and break-up powers and the Federal Reserve with power to prohibit proprietary trading under certain circumstances. [read post]
9 Nov 2018, 9:06 am
The CFPB and Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) have released the first public use file containing data from the National Survey of Mortgage Originations. [read post]
19 Jul 2018, 10:00 am
As a result, the Fifth Circuit’s decision issued earlier this week which found that the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is unconstitutionally structured because it is excessively insulated from Executive Branch oversight could be a preview of how another Fifth Circuit panel might approach the CFPB’s constitutionality. [read post]
30 Mar 2017, 8:04 pm
Major structural characteristics of federal financial regulators that influence independence include agency head: the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Federal Reserve (Fed), National Credit Union Association (NCUA), and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have multi-member boards or commissions led by a chair, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Federal Housing… [read post]
