Structured Finance Association Asks Treasury To Go Slow On Fannie And Freddie Privatization – Finance and Banking

The Structured Finance Affiliation (“SFA”) urged the Treasury Division “to keep away from
the doubtless damaging results” of pushing Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac (the government-sponsored enterprises or the
“GSEs”) out from below conservatorship prematurely.

In a letter “on behalf of the 370 institutional members of
the Structured Finance Affiliation” to Treasury Secretary
Steven Mnuchin, the SFA reaffirmed its assist for releasing the
GSEs from conservatorship. Nevertheless, the SFA cautioned towards a
“rapidly thrown collectively exit” from conservatorship primarily based
on the political calendar, preferring a timeline that takes
“accountable, incremental steps.” The SFA said that its analysis of Treasury’s plan for
privatizing the GSEs was that it “may take years” to
implement.

The SFA supplied extra concerns earlier than taking ultimate
motion. These embody assessing:

• the diploma and kind of presidency assist that fairness buyers
  ought to price-in for mortgage-backed securities (“MBS”)
  and GSE debt;




• the results of privatization on the capital of banks which are
  main holders of GSE securities; and




• the rankings of MBS issued by the GSEs as in comparison with the
  rankings of U.S. sovereign debt.

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