Article: Fed study ignores big role Fannie Mae plays in extending credit to the underserved. (Federal Reserve Board, Federal National Mortgage Association)

A Dec. 7 article in American Banker described a Federal Reserve Board study about risk assumption in the mortgage market that was originally published in the November issue of the Federal Reserve Bulletin. In the following article, Ann Logan, a Fannie Mae executive vice president, responds to the Fed study.

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The recent Federal Reserve Board study, "Credit Risk and the Provision of Mortgages to Lower-Income and Minority Homebuyers," is misleading and inaccurate.

Fannie Mae is the largest single investor in home loans, and we assume all or a large part of the risk on the vast majority of all mortgages we finance. Fannie Mae holds in its portfolio or ...

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