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WASHINGTON -- The Federal Housing Finance Board's decision Friday to scrap its retained-earnings proposal while approving a less restrictive excess-stock rule amounted to an early Christmas present for the industry. [...]

The Federal Housing Finance Board said Friday that it has scheduled a meeting for Dec. 22 to discuss several topics, including retained earnings, excess stock, and public interest directors. Finance [...]

WASHINGTON -- For the second time in six months, the Federal Housing Finance Board has signed off on a rule change to help a struggling home loan bank. The agency [...]

The Federal Housing Finance Board approved a plan Wednesday that gives the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle authority to create a temporary excess stock pool that will help capitalize [...]

A proposal to change the exam rating system at the 12 Federal Home Loan banks is slated for debate at a Federal Housing Finance Board meeting scheduled for Wednesday. The [...]

WASHINGTON -- Policy proposals are often divisive, but rarely are federal regulators as isolated as Federal Housing Finance Board Chairman Ronald Rosenfeld is on his plan to boost the Federal [...]

At a brief meeting Wednesday, the Federal Housing Finance Board tabled a proposal to change the examination rating system for the 12 Federal Home Loan banks. The delay drew no [...]

The Federal Housing Finance Board, which regulates the Federal Home Loan banks, has proposed a regulation that would mandate increasing retained earnings by cutting dividends to member banks, even though [...]

America's Community Bankers is seeking more information from the Federal Housing Finance Board on how it developed a proposal that would require the Federal Home Loan banks to raise their [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Home Loan banks could take a more active role in selecting candidates for their boards under a proposal the Federal Housing Finance Board issued Wednesday. Current [...]

WASHINGTON -- The head of the Federal Housing Finance Board defended his agency's plan to significantly raise retained earnings at the Federal Home Loan banks, saying it was in the [...]

WASHINGTON -- The 12 Federal Home Loan banks would have to hold significantly more in retained earnings under a proposal the Federal Housing Finance Board issued Wednesday. The proposal would [...]

Federal Housing Finance Board Chairwoman Alicia Castaneda strongly defended its decision to require Home Loan banks to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission; she argued that the legal, accounting, [...]

Federal Home Loan banks would have to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission under a proposal made Wednesday by the Federal Housing Finance Board. Finance Board Chairman John T. [...]

The Federal Housing Finance Board is scheduled to discuss on Dec. 2 whether to require Federal Home Loan Banks to make certain disclosures to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The [...]

The beleaguered chairman of the Federal Housing Finance Board has laid out an ambitious near-term agenda that includes action on disclosure requirements for Home Loan Bank debt issues and membership [...]

Federal Housing Finance Board Chairman John T. Korsmo announced Tuesday that he will sit on pending applications by banking companies to join more than one Federal Home Loan bank until [...]

The Federal Housing Finance Board finally took its first steps Wednesday toward deciding whether to let financial companies join more than one Home Loan bank. In its first meeting this [...]

Congressional reform of the Federal Home Loan Bank System hasn't gone anywhere in the past few years, but now the system's governor, the Federal Housing Finance Board, is taking reform [...]

By DAVID HARRISON Debate over the Federal Home Loan Bank System is expected to reach a boiling point next year as the system's regulator and the Treasury Department advocate different [...]

The Federal Housing Finance Board has recommended that the Federal Home Loan Bank System be modified to reflect the realities of the housing and financial markets of the 1990s. The Home Loan Bank System is required to spend $300 million per year to help bail out ailing savings and loans and $50 million per year on affordable housing projects. Financing these obligations while still providing reasonable returns to member banks is putting considerable strain on the Home Loan Bank System., WASHINGTON - Back when children still walked miles through the snow to school and some small communities depended on a single savings and loan for the credit to build houses, [...]

All Federal Home Loan bank borrowers would have to document their support of first-time homebuyers, under a rule to be proposed Thursday by the Federal Housing Finance Board. Bank and [...]

The 12 Federal Home Loan banks, founded to advance cheap money to thrifts for home loans, are casting about for a new role as thrifts become smaller mortgage players. Judging [...]

WASHINGTON - The Federal Housing Finance Board voted Wednesday not to force the Federal Home Loan Bank System to increase direct funding for mortgages. The housing finance board, which oversees [...]

The Federal Housing Finance Board began reviewing community support statements from Federal Home Loan Banks in Jan 1992 for compliance with the Community Reinvestment Act. The agency plans to review one-eighth of its 3,000 members every 90 days. In 1990, Avondale Federal Savings Bank received a substantial noncompliance rating and became ineligible for Home Loan Bank advances. The rating came as a result of a complaint by ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), The Federal Housing Finance Board has become the latest regulator to put financial institutions on notice about communicaty lending compliance. In January, the agency began its first review of the [...]