Prime
mortgages meet the quality standards set forth by Fannie Mae (the Federal National Mortgage Association) and Freddie Mac (the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation), the two government - sponsored enterprises that provide a secondary market in home mortgages by purchasing loans from originating lenders.
Not exact matches
But when
mortgages soured, trustees declined to pursue available remedies for investors, such as pushing a servicer to buy back loans that did not
meet quality standards promised when the securities were sold.
Edward Tufte took out a second
mortgage on his house to self - publish The Visual Display of Quantitative Information in 1982, because no printer could
meet his
quality standards.