Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) priced Connecticut Avenue Securities® (CAS) Series 2022-R09, an approximately $591 million note offering that represents Fannie Mae’s ninth CAS REMIC® transaction of the year. CAS is Fannie Mae’s benchmark issuance program designed to share credit risk on its single-family conventional guaranty book of business.
The reference pool for CAS Series 2022-R09 consists of approximately 96,000 single-family mortgage loans with an outstanding unpaid principal balance of approximately $29.3 billion. The reference pool includes collateral with loan-to-value ratios of 80.01 percent to 97.00 percent, which were acquired between September 2021 and December 2021. The loans included in this transaction are fixed-rate, generally 30-year term, fully amortizing mortgages and were underwritten using rigorous credit standards and enhanced risk controls.
Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (“Citigroup”) is the lead structuring manager and joint bookrunner. Wells Fargo Securities, LLC (“Wells Fargo”) is the co-lead manager and joint bookrunner. Co-managers are Amherst Pierpont Securities LLC (“Amherst“), Barclays Capital Inc. (“Barclays”), BofA Securities, Inc. (“BofA”), and Performance Trust Capital Partners, LLC, (“Performance Trust”). Selling group members are service-disabled veteran-owned firm Mischler Financial Group, Inc. and Hispanic-owned Great Pacific Securities.
With the completion of this transaction, Fannie Mae will have brought 53 CAS deals to market, issued over $59 billion in notes, and transferred a portion of the credit risk to private investors on over $1.96 trillion in single-family mortgage loans, measured at the time of the transaction.
To promote transparency and to help credit investors evaluate our securities and the CAS program, Fannie Mae provides ongoing, robust disclosure data, as well as access to news, resources, and analytics through its credit risk transfer webpages. This includes our innovative Data Dynamics® tool that enables market participants to interact with and analyze CAS deals that are currently outstanding in the market and Fannie Mae’s historical loan dataset. In addition, our EU Resources and UK Resources webpages help European Union and UK institutional investors, as well as those managing funds subject to EU/UK regulations comply with EU/UK securitization regulations.
In addition to our flagship CAS program, Fannie Mae continues to transfer mortgage credit risk through its Credit Insurance Risk Transfer™ reinsurance program.
About Connecticut Avenue Securities
CAS REMIC notes are issued by a bankruptcy-remote trust. The amount of periodic principal and ultimate principal paid by Fannie Mae is determined by the performance of a large and diverse reference pool. For more information on individual CAS transactions, visit our credit risk transfer webpage.
About Fannie Mae
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