FHFA today recognized the inevitable and, like the banking agencies before it, bowed its head and conceded to community banks. It thus carved them out of its final FHLB-membership rule. Not the MREITs, which did not win continued access to the System through their captive reinsurers despite fervent lobbying that won even a White House official to side with them.
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