A Seismic Shift Under the House of Fannie Mae
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FROM a compulsively neat desk inside a company that routinely jousts with powerful critics from the White House, Congress, the Federal Reserve and Wall Street, J. Timothy Howard has been the financial architect of one of the world&#39;s most formidable and
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Fannie Mae, the nation's largest mortgage buyer, agreed to major changes in its accounting and management practices.
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For decades Wall Street's investment banking fraternity has been dominated by a handful of great American houses--what are now Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Citigroup (Smith Barney).
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The fallout from allegations of serious accounting problems at Fannie Mae has rattled investors and could even bump up mortgage rates down the road.
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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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Fannie Mae&#39;s newly discovered accounting artifices could give lagging reform efforts in Congress some impetus. Mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are financial behemoths and political sacred cows - escaping
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By George Chamberlin , Daily Transcript Financial Correspondent. Rising residential real estate values have been a blessing for many households.
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Fannie Mae wanted to look very safe. But to do that it cut accounting corners, two regulatory agencies have now concluded. And that has severely damaged the image of the mortgage lender and its management.
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In the spring of 2000, Fannie Mae, the giant housing-finance company, was pleading with accounting rulemakers to preserve a &quot;shortcut&quot; around new requirements that would be costly to implement while making earnings less predictable.
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(CBS/AP) Fannie Mae, the nation&#39;s second largest financial institution, forced out two top executives as it struggles to deal with an accounting scandal which will likely force it to wipe out $9 billion in profits over the past four years.
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Legislation to tighten federal oversight of the two biggest buyers of home mortgages, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, cleared the House yesterday.
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Records raise new questions about the business practices of the giant mortgage lender at the center of the subprime mess.
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Fannie Mae's struggle to weather the storm amid the wreckage of Franklin Raines's tenure will be played out in Congress as well as in corporate boardrooms.
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RIVERVIEW, Fla., Jan. 25 -- Piece by piece, as the economy has faltered and as the subprime mortgage crisis has taken hold, Ivan Toledo's grasp on his job, his house -- his entire middle-class life -- has come undone.
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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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Because Fannie Mae&#39;s board of directors allowed CEO Franklin Raines to &quot;retire&quot; and chief financial officer Timothy Howard to resign late Wednesday, the Office of Federal Housing
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After surviving an accounting scandle, Fannie Mae can handle housing's hurting.