8-K 5.02 May 2014 Conservatorship Scorecard


UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20549
 
FORM 8-K
 
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): May 13, 2014
 
Federal National Mortgage Association
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Federally chartered corporation
 
000-50231
 
52-0883107
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3900 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
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Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On May 13, 2014, Federal Housing Finance Agency (“FHFA”) Director Melvin L. Watt released the 2014 corporate performance goals and related targets for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac set forth in the table below, including the relative weighting of each goal. These corporate performance goals and targets are referred to as the 2014 conservatorship scorecard.
A principal element of compensation for each of our officers who is identified as an “executive officer” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013 other than our Chief Executive Officer is deferred salary, a portion of which is subject to reduction, or “at-risk,” based on performance. One half of our executives’ at-risk deferred salary is subject to reduction based on the company’s performance against the 2014 conservatorship scorecard. FHFA will have the primary role in determining whether Fannie Mae has achieved the goals set forth in the 2014 conservatorship scorecard, with input from management and our Board of Directors.
2014 Conservatorship Scorecard (Corporate Performance Goals)

For all Scorecard items, Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) will be assessed based on the following criteria:
The extent to which the initiatives are undertaken in a safe and sound manner;
The quality, thoroughness, creativity, effectiveness, and timeliness of their work products;
Cooperation and collaboration with FHFA, Common Securitization Solutions, each other, and the industry;
The extent to which the outcomes of their activities support a competitive and resilient secondary mortgage market to support homeowners and renters;
The quality of the input provided to FHFA for periodic progress reports to the public.

Maintain in a safe and sound manner, foreclosure prevention activities and credit availability for new and refinanced mortgages to foster liquid, efficient, competitive and resilient national housing finance markets. [40%]
The Enterprises are to:
Work to increase access to mortgage credit for creditworthy borrowers, consistent with the full extent of applicable credit requirements and risk-management practices through:
Continuing to improve the Representations and Warranties Framework for originations;
Providing additional clarity regarding servicing Representations and Warranties and remedies for poor performance, including compensatory fees;
Providing transparency regarding servicer eligibility standards;
Assessing and developing plans to encourage greater participation by small lenders, rural lenders, and state and local Housing Finance Agencies.
Continue to undertake key loss mitigation and foreclosure prevention activities, including:
Analyzing and pursing opportunities to encourage take-up by currently HARP-eligible borrowers;
Assessing and developing additional plans for loss mitigation strategies, including those for the post-HAMP marketplace;
Developing and implementing a plan for targeted non-performing loan sales and Real Estate Owned property sales that facilitate neighborhood stabilization, especially in hardest hit markets.
Continue to develop approaches to reduce borrower, and therefore Enterprise, costs for Lender Placed Insurance (LPI).
Maintain the dollar volume of new multifamily business for each Enterprise at or below the 2013 caps, excluding:
Affordable housing loans, loans to small multifamily properties and loans to manufactured housing rental communities.

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Reduce taxpayer risk through increasing the role of private capital in the mortgage market. [30%]
Single-Family:
Each Enterprise will transact credit risk transfers on single family mortgages with at least $90 billion of unpaid principal balances adjusted for the amount of credit risk transferred;
Each Enterprise must utilize at least one transaction type in addition to the Freddie Mac Structured Agency Credit Risk (STACR®) or the Fannie Mae Connecticut Avenue Securities (CAS) structures (e.g. insurance, upfront credit risk transfers, and senior/subordinated securitizations):
FHFA will provide some extra Scorecard credit for the substantial completion of R&D efforts in this space;
FHFA will provide more extra Scorecard credit for completing any additional types of transactions beyond the first two.
Multifamily:
The Enterprises are to assess the economics and feasibility of adopting additional types of risk transfer structures and of increasing the amount of risk transferred in current risk transfer structures (risk is broadly defined to include, but is not limited to, credit, counterparty or aggregation risk).
Retained Portfolio:
The Enterprises shall submit to FHFA within 60 days retained portfolio plans that meet, even under adverse conditions, the annual Senior Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement (PSPA) requirements and the $250 billion PSPA cap by December 31, 2018:
The plans should focus on reducing less liquid assets;
Any sales should be economically sensible transactions that consider impacts to the market and neighborhood stability.
The Enterprises are to finalize mortgage insurance Master Policies and enhanced eligibility requirements.

Build a new single-family securitization infrastructure for use by the Enterprises and adaptable for use by other participants in the secondary market in the future. [30%]
The Enterprises are to:
Continue working with FHFA, each other and Common Securitization Solutions, LLC to build and test the Common Securitization Platform (CSP) and continue the implementation of required changes to the Enterprises’ related systems and operations for integration into the CSP. The Enterprises’ work on CSP should incorporate the following design principles:
Focus on the functions necessary for current Enterprise single family securitization activities;
Include the development of the operational and system capabilities necessary to issue a single (common) security for the Enterprises; and
Allow the option for the integration of additional market participants in a future system.
Identify key components, features and standards needed for a single (common) security in the CSP. Assess key issues and begin to address these issues:
Continue to explore other shorter-term changes that may improve market liquidity in the Agency MBS market.
Provide active support for mortgage data standardization initiatives:
Servicing Data and Technology Initiative.
Engage with FHFA and the industry to identify current and anticipated mortgage servicing data and technology gaps in order to explore technology improvements and expand data standardization.

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The Uniform Closing Disclosure Dataset (UCD) initiative.
Develop a standardized dataset to support the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Integrated Mortgage Disclosure Regulation and Closing Disclosure;
Create a strategy for the collection and use of the UCD dataset; and
Publish an industry announcement of the UCD dataset, as well as a timeline for the collection of the data.
Uniform Loan Application Dataset.
Reassess loan application data needs;
Update the physical format of the Uniform Residential Loan Application, and
Demonstrate progress towards creating a draft Uniform Loan Application Dataset specification.


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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
 
 
 
 
 
 
FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION
 
 
 
 
By
/s/ Timothy J. Mayopoulos
 
 
Timothy J. Mayopoulos
 
 
President and Chief Executive Officer
Date: May 14, 2014


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