Overview

Reference Notes® securities are one of Freddie Mac's term debt products, offering investors fixed-rate debt from two through ten years.

Freddie Mac’s Freddie Mac’s 2024 funding calendar and 2025 funding calendar provides optional announcement dates for Reference Notes securities offerings. On the optional Reference Notes announcement date, Freddie Mac will announce whether a Reference Notes security will be issued in that month. If a Reference Notes security will be issued, the offering announcement will include relevant transaction information.

Freddie Mac may use a combination of web-based auctions and dealer syndicates for Reference Notes new issues and re-openings.

Requests for Separate Bidder Identification

Key Program Features

Initial issuesFor maturities of 2 - 10 years. No minimum size.
ReopeningsFor maturities of 2 - 10 years. No minimum size.
Maturities2-, 3-, 5-, 10- year maturities. Longer dated maturities according to market conditions with advance notice.
RatingsView our current credit ratings.
Dealer groupFind an approved dealer.
Clearing and settlementFedwire, Euroclear and Clearstream
Minimum denominations$2,000 or greater, in increments of $1,000
RedemptionAt par on maturity date. Not redeemable.
Day count convention30/360
Interest payment frequencySemiannually
DocumentationGlobal Debt Facility
Governing lawNew York

Issuance Activity

Disclaimer

Information contained on this website Freddie Mac is not an offer to sell any Freddie Mac securities. Offers for any given security are made only through applicable offering circulars and related supplements.

Any financial and other information contained in the documents that may be accessed on this page speaks only as of the date of those documents. The information could be out of date and no longer accurate. Freddie Mac does not undertake an obligation, and disclaims any duty, to update any of the information in those documents.