Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae played a major role in creating a secondary market for mortgages by providing liquidity to the market, thereby increasing demand for mortgages. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae had GSE statuses, which enabled them to take more risk relative to other financial organizations/institutions. That being said, they were able to purchase various mortgages from different financial institutions, package them into mortgage backed securities, and sell them to investors on Wall Street without an explicit guarantee on the mortgage values. On the other hand, Ginnie Mae, a fully government-owned institution, fully guaranteed repayments of mortgage backed securities. Then as competition increased and their market shares began decreasing,