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Implement critical reforms that will produce a stronger and more resilient housing finance system.
FOSTER competitive, liquid, efficient, and resilient (CLEAR) national housing finance markets that support sustainable homeownership and affordable rental housing; OPERATE in a safe and sound manner appropriate for entities in conservatorship; and PREPARE for eventual exits from the conservatorships.
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As the Deputy Director of DER, Galeano is responsible for the supervision of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) to ensure their safe and sound operation. DER conducts risk analysis and risk-based examinations, prepares annual reports of examination of the Enterprises, and issues supervision policy and examiner guidance.
Galeano has served in various capacities at FHFA since 2002, including as Deputy Director, Division of Bank Regulation and Associate Director of examinations for the FHLBanks. He was the Examiner-in-Charge over Fannie Mae in 2012, and FHFA’s Associate Director of Credit Risk in 2011.
Beginning in 2002, Galeano worked for the Federal Housing Finance Board as a senior bank examiner and the examiner-in-charge of the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York. He was promoted to portfolio manager in 2005, overseeing a team of examiners and several Federal Home Loan Banks and the Office of Finance. Galeano is a self-described “lifelong bank examiner,” having begun his career with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in 1992 as an assistant bank examiner in the Manhattan Field Office. He was commissioned in August 1995 and became an FDIC case manager in 1997. He is a graduate of Pace University with a double major in finance and economics. He graduated from the Stonier Graduate School of Banking with Distinction Honors, and is a graduate of the Federal Executive Institute Leadership for a Democratic Society. Galeano resides in Northern Virginia with his wife and son.
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