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Fannie Mae finalizes two additional credit insurance risk transfers

Housing Wire

On the heels of completing its first credit insurance risk transfer (CIRT) deal of the year in early March, Fannie Mae has announced that it has executed two additional CIRT deals. . billion of mortgage credit risk to private insurers and reinsurers. “We The newest deals, CIRT 2022-2 and CIRT 2022-3, together transferred $1.8

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FHFA: Fannie & Freddie Credit Risk Transfers “untested”

Housing Wire

Despite heightened investor uncertainty during the onset of the pandemic, GSE-backed mortgages have outperformed expectations, the report notes. Freddie Mac implemented the CRT structure in 2013 to reduce the taxpayer’s exposure to its mortgage risks, shifting the risk of credit losses on the mortgages they insure onto investors.

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Fannie Mae launches eighth CAS note offering this year

Housing Wire

Through CAS note offerings, private investors participate with Fannie in sharing a portion of the mortgage credit risk in the reference loan pools retained by the agency. Fannie Mae operates two CRT programs — its CAS note offerings and its Credit Insurance Risk Transfer , or CIRT, transactions.

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Freddie Mac opens 2022 with two large CRT offerings

Housing Wire

Through Freddie Mac’s STACR CRT transactions, private investors participate with the agency in sharing a portion of the mortgage credit risk in the reference loan pools retained by the GSE. Freddie Mac’s CRT program was founded with its issuance of the first STACR notes in July 2013. It was introduced in November 2013.

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CRT protects GSEs, taxpayers from unexpected disasters

Housing Wire

After reading the recent report from the Federal Housing Finance Agency on the performance of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’ s credit risk transfer programs, anyone unfamiliar with the purposes of CRT might understandably conclude that the GSEs vastly overpaid capital market investors and insurance providers to transfer credit risk off their books.

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Fannie plans $15B in CRT deals in 2022

Housing Wire

Fannie Mae opened 2022 with its 45 th credit-risk transfer (CRT) deal through its Connecticut Avenue Securities (CAS) real estate mortgage investment conduit, or REMIC, bringing the collective value of notes issued through the conduit to nearly $52 billion since the first offering in 2013. trillion. . In October, the agency made a $1.2

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Freddie Mac’s CRT program posts record performance 

Housing Wire

The offering totals were across the agency’s flagship Structured Agency Credit Risk (STACR) and Agency Credit Insurance Structure (ACIS) programs, along with other risk-sharing transactions. Through the A CIS transactions, a portion of the credit risk on mortgages backed by Fannie and Freddie is shifted to insurers in the private sector.

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