President Bush intends to nominate former Mortgage Bankers Association chairman Rob Couch to be the new president of Ginnie Mae, according to the White House.Mr. Couch, who is the president of New South Federal Savings Bank, Birmingham, Ala., has a legal and accounting background. The Ginnie Mae post has been vacant since Ronald Rosenfeld left in December 2004 to become the director of the Federal Housing Finance Board. Michael Frenz, Ginnie Mae's executive vice president, has been in charge of the secondary-market agency since then. Ginnie Mae guarantees pools of government-insured residential and multifamily mortgages that are securitized by private issuers. It can be found online at http://www.ginniemae.gov.
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The Housing for the 21st Century Act includes provisions covering policy, manufactured homes and rural infrastructure introduced in a prior Senate proposal.
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The FHFA chief told Fox an offering could be done near term - but may not be - while a Treasury official addressed conservatorship questions at an FSOC hearing.
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The secondary market regulator will formally publish its own rule on Feb. 6, after a comment period and without making changes to what it proposed in July.
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Bowing to industry pressure, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is warning consumers with notices on its complaint portal not to file disputes about inaccurate information on credit reports, among other changes.
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The mortgage technology unit at Intercontinental Exchange posted a profit for the third straight quarter, even as lower minimums among renewals capped growth.
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