At Fannie, The Ties That Blind
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AFTER hemming and hawing and bobbing and weaving, the board of directors of Fannie Mae finally jettisoned Franklin D. Raines, the mortgage finance giant&#39;s former chief executive, and Timothy Howard, its former chief financial officer, last week.
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Federal investigations of Fannie Mae&#39;s (FNM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) accounting could keep the top US home funding company&#39;s stock hemorrhaging, but most debt investors scent opportunity.
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Turmoil at Fannie Mae calls for a stronger, more exacting regulatory hand, but the zeal for reform should not eclipse the financial institution&#39;s singular mission: providing low- and moderate-income Americans with entree into home ownership.
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Fannie Mae, the quaintly named mortgage company that sounds like a minor character from TV&#39;s &quot;The Beverly Hillbillies,&quot; is, in fact, the nation&#39;s second-largest financial institution.
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Two regulatory agencies have concluded that Fannie Mae cut corners when it came to its accounting, and that has severely damaged its image.
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Source: Mortgage financer may be forced to keep up to $31B on hand while it fixes accounting woes. WASHINGTON  - Embattled mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae was close to a deal with regulators late
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A shocking expose hit the Street last week about one of the best-loved, most all-American companies out there: Fannie Mae, the mortgage and financial services giant.
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The forced departure this week of Franklin Raines as chief executive of Fannie Mae wonât end the turmoil at the nationâs second largest financial institution.
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Pity that Fannie's management decided to test the limits of an implied Federal guarantee.
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Few people know much about mortgage giant Fannie Mae aside from its TV ads, which paint the company as the $1 trillion version of George Bailey&#39;s savings and loan in It&#39;s a Wonderful Life.
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Fannie Mae&#39;s board of directors may have found it hard to get rid of the company&#39;s top two executives, but a difficult job remains in navigating the transition to the next senior management team.
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Unlike the problems in recent financial scandals, issues raised by Fannie Mae's regulators pertain to unwieldy accounting rules that are open to widely divergent interpretations.
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Fannie Mae Chief Executive Franklin Raines' struggle for his job and reputation after regulators found extensive accounting problems at his company is an unexpected twist in a career that had seemed likely to vault him into a prominent role in national politics.
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Once a seemingly indestructible hiding hole for the frightened investor, some on Wall Street are beginning to question the super-safe status of US Treasury debt.
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The ouster of Franklin D. Raines as chairman and chief executive of Fannie Mae, the mortgage finance giant, might provide an opening for long-time critics to impose
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One would think that the news that the Securities and Exchange Commission had ordered mortgage giant Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) to restate earnings downward by more than $9 billion would have caused investors to think very, very carefully about their faith in
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Even as analysts and officials have been ringing warning bells about exotic mortgages, investors have seen little reason to abandon the bonds backed by these home loans.