Pulte brings Fannie, Freddie together to talk deregulation

The conservator of two government-sponsored enterprises that buy and securitize many mortgages originated in the United States said he’s arranged some unusual talks between them to get their input on deregulation.

“In following President Trump’s deregulation mandate, I ordered the executives of Fannie and Freddie to meet and provide me [with] regulatory changes,” Bill Pulte, director of the renamed Federal Housing Finance Agency said in an X post on Thursday. “To my surprise, they hadn’t been allowed to talk, despite being heavily regulated together.”

Pulte, who has rebranded the FHFA as U.S. Federal Housing, said there’ll be “more to come” regarding information from those meetings, which he announced amid a flurry of other other activity this week.

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