The regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac wants to allow mortgage lenders to use an alternative credit score to FICO for ...

Shares of mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae (OTC:FNMA) and Freddie Mac (OTC:FMCC) fell 7% in Friday trading after Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte indicated the companies ...

Freddie Mac, like the government that backs it, has no resources. Its swagger is not its own. Its resource is the taxable access to private wealth of the government it serves.

The federal government could net as much as $206 billion in the process.

More details are out about the government-sponsored enterprises' acceptance of nontraditional credit metrics. But pundits say ...

The mortgage market is stronger than ever before, and that includes Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Both businesses, and both ...

Comments by Bill Pulte, director of the agency that oversees the mortgage giants, suggest that releasing them from ...

ESL Federal Credit Union won a Home Possible RISE Award from Freddie Mac for delivering affordable mortgages to low-income ...

The U.S. government could profit from its stake in Fannie and Freddie, but only if the mortgage giants were run through ...

Seventeen years after the 2008 bailout, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac remain under federal conservatorship, with a future that’s ...

Freddie Mac reported net income of $3.8 billion for the first quarter of 2022, an increase of 37% year-over-year, even as purchase and refinance activity continued to decline.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are also rolling out a new credit reporting system that factors rent payments into creditworthiness scores, one of the biggest systemic barriers experts say keep renters ...