The American Banker today bases its coverage of the Shelby bill’s GSE-reform provisions on a report Federal Financial Analytics sent last week to our clients. As the Banker states, we called the bill “stealth” GSE reform and laid out how the risk-transfer provisions combine with others in the measure to transform the agencies into catastrophic guarantors. A major market change with far-reaching competitiveness implications, this approach is akin to bipartisan legislation in the last Congress stripped of many other contentious provisions that stalled explicit reform.
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