MBS Announcements
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2024
November 19, 2024 – Q4 Securities Spotlight Newsletter
November 4, 2024 – Freddie Mac Announces Updates to Clarity MBS Dashboard
October 30, 2024 – Mission Index Perspectives – Focusing Help Where It’s Needed
October 25, 2024 – Freddie Mac Announces 2025 Mortgage Security Disclosure Holiday Schedule
October 10, 2024 – Freddie Mac Publishes Updated Single-Family Green MBS Framework, Effective January 2025
October 1, 2024 – Freddie Mac Single-Family MBS Disclosure Updates
September 4, 2024 – Freddie Mac Announces Planned Expansion to Allow Green MBS Guarantor Execution
August 13, 2024 – Q3 Securities Spotlight Newsletter
August 6, 2024 – Single-Family MBS Disclosure Enhancement – Mission Index Version
August 1, 2024 – Freddie Mac Announces that CSS Will Perform Securities Administration Duties on Single-Family REMIC Program
July 11, 2024 – Credit Score Models and Credit Reports – Historical VantageScore® 4.0 Scores Now Available
July 8, 2024 – New Seller-Level Dashboards Now Available in Clarity
June 27, 2024 – Freddie Mac Launches Multifamily Giant PCs
June 17, 2024 – Stakeholder Forum on Historical Credit Score Data
June 11, 2024 – Freddie Mac Publishes its 2023 Green MBS Impact Report
May 7, 2024 – Freddie Mac Provides Reminder of New Social Indicator for Single-Family MBS Securities
February 20, 2024 – Freddie Mac Provides Additional Details for Refinitiv Index Name changing to FTSE for ARM MBS Securities
January 25, 2024 – Freddie Mac Announces New Multifamily Giant PC Prefixes
January 23, 2024 – Freddie Mac Releases Updated Single-Family Social Bond Framework
January 8, 2024 – Freddie Mac Announces New Multifamily PC Prefix
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2023
December 11, 2023 – Freddie Mac Announces New Green MBS Disclosures
December 4, 2023 – Freddie Mac Announces 2024 Mortgage Security Disclosure Holiday Schedule
November 20, 2023 – Refinitiv Index Name changing to FTSE
September 18, 2023 – Freddie Mac Announces Social Disclosures for Supers and Giants
September 15, 2023 – Freddie Mac Releases its 2022 Sustainability Report
September 11, 2023 – Freddie Mac Introduces a New Prepayment Dashboard in Clarity Data Intelligence® (Clarity)
July 25, 2023 – Freddie Mac Multifamily Disclosure Guide Updates – ARM Index
July 18, 2023 – Freddie Mac Releases its 2022 Green MBS Impact Report
June 29, 2023 – Freddie Mac Announces Single-Family MBS Disclosure Enhancements
June 14, 2023 – Enhanced Daily Prepayment Rate Dashboard Now Available in Clarity
June 5, 2023 – Freddie Mac Updates Property Valuation Method Disclosures
May 1, 2023 – Clarity Data Intelligence Enhanced with MBS Portal
April 13, 2023 – Freddie Mac Provides Additional Details on Replacement Indices for Single-Family LIBOR-Indexed Collateralized Mortgage Obligations
March 23, 2023 – Freddie Mac Provides Update on Credit Score Initiative
March 8, 2023 – Freddie Mac Daily Prepayment Report Begins Today
February 22, 2023 – Freddie Mac Annual Data Usage Reminder
February 21, 2023 – Freddie Mac Publishes Historical Daily Prepayment Report
February 1, 2023 – Freddie Mac to provide Floater Reset Rates for Single-Family REMICs
January 25, 2023 – Freddie Mac Announces Replacement of LIBOR Index for Single-Family MBS Securities
January 24, 2023 – Freddie Mac to Publish Cohort-Level Daily Prepayment Report
January 19, 2023 – Revised Resecuritization Fee for New Issuances of Commingled Securities as of April 1, 2023
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2022
December 15, 2022 – Freddie Mac Publishes Social Index Disclosures Historical File
December 5, 2022 – Freddie Mac Announces 2023 Mortgage Security Disclosure Holiday Schedule
December 2, 2022 – Freddie Mac Begins Publishing Social Index Disclosures
November 28, 2022 – Freddie Mac Publishes its Single-Family Social MBS and Corporate Social Debt Bonds Framework and Associated Second Party Opinion
November 18, 2022 – Freddie Mac Publishes its 2021 Single-Family Green MBS Issuance Impact Report
November 17, 2022 – Freddie Mac Announces Date to Begin Publishing Social Index Disclosures
October 18, 2022 – Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to Align on New Single-Family MBS Social Disclosures
September 8, 2022 – Freddie Mac Announces the Introduction of Early Disclosure on Guarantor Swap Securities
August 15, 2022 – Freddie Mac Announces New Multifamily PC Prefix
July 29, 2022 – Freddie Mac to Postpone the Introduction of Floater Reset Rate Disclosures for Single-Family REMICs
July 18, 2022 – Certain MBS Pools Affected by Loan Removal Error
June 30, 2022 – Freddie Mac to provide Floater Reset Rates for Single-Family REMICs
June 14, 2022 – Introduction of Resecuritization Fee for New Issuances of Commingled Securities
June 2, 2022 – Freddie Mac Notification of Equifax Coding Error
May 12, 2022 – Freddie Mac Ceases Resecuritization of LIBOR-Indexed CMOs and PCs
May 5, 2022 – Pass Through of Outstanding Principal Curtailment for Certain MBS Securities
April 14, 2022 – Freddie Mac Annual Data Usage Reminder
January 27, 2022 – Updated: Replacement of 11th District COFI Index for MBS Securities
January 19, 2022 – Freddie Mac Issues Green MBS with Expanded Collateral Under its Single-Family Green Bond Framework
January 3, 2022 – Freddie Mac's Green Bond Program Expands with Single-Family Green Bond Framework and Second Party Opinion
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2021
December 13, 2021 – Replacement of 11th District COFI Index for MBS Securities
November 18, 2021 – Freddie Mac Announces 2022 Mortgage Security Disclosure Holiday Schedule
November 8, 2021 – Freddie Mac to Implement Minor Disclosure Enhancements
October 7, 2021 – Freddie Mac Announces Multi-Billion Dollar Bond Program Focused on Affordable Housing
September 9, 2021 – Corrected: Special Eligibility Program Historical Issuance File
September 9, 2021 – Issue with Special Eligibility Program Historical Issuance File
September 8, 2021 – Special Eligibility Program Historical Issuance File
August 2, 2021 – MBS Disclosure Enhancement Reminder: Special Eligibility Program
July 29, 2021 – Freddie Mac Announces Multifamily MBS Disclosure Enhancements
July 9, 2021 – Payoff of COFI-Indexed Multifamily Mortgage Participation Certificate
June 14, 2021 – Freddie Mac MBS Disclosure Enhancement: Special Eligibility Program
May 5, 2021 – Introducing Freddie Mac Refi PossibleSM
April 19, 2021 – Freddie Mac Announces its First Single-Family Green MBS Transactions
April 6, 2021 – Freddie Mac Announces MBS Disclosure Enhancements
March 31, 2021 – Retirement of Delinquency and Borrower Assistance Plan Issuance Disclosures
March 9, 2021 – Freddie Mac Announces New Multifamily Prefix
January 11, 2021 – New Borrower Assistance Plan and Days Delinquent MBS Disclosures
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2020
December 17, 2020 – Freddie Mac Clears Path for New Index Rate
December 9, 2020 – Reminder: Revised Aligned Delinquent Loan Buyout Policy
November 10, 2020 – Freddie Mac Announces Reporting Error Affecting Certain MBS
November 6, 2020 – Freddie Mac Announces 2021 Mortgage Security Disclosure Holiday Schedule
October 6, 2020 – New Alternative Delinquency Resolution MBS Disclosures
September 30, 2020 – Revised Aligned Delinquent Loan Buyout Policy
September 18, 2020 – Freddie Mac Evaluating the Potential Impact of LIBOR Cessation on Legacy CMO Bonds that Used the “BBA Method"
September 2, 2020 – UMBS/MBS Offering Circular Effective Date in Pool Supplements
August 7, 2020 – Investor Claim Process Available for Repurchases of Ineligible COVID-19 Forbearance Loans
June 19, 2020 – Deck Now Posted for COVID-19 MBS Investor Call Held June 18, 2020
June 11, 2020 – Updates to SOFR-indexed CMOs: Determination Dates and Offering Timing
June 5, 2020 – Additional COVID-19 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for Mortgage Securities Investors
May 29, 2020 – COVID-19 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for Mortgage Securities Investors
May 28, 2020 – New Joint GSE Resources on LIBOR Transition
May 28, 2020 – Introduction of SOFR-indexed CMOs, Cessation of New LIBOR-indexed CMO Issuances, and Amendments Posted for Legacy LIBOR-indexed CMOs
May 4, 2020 – New Delinquency and Borrower Assistance Plan Disclosures
April 22, 2020 – Temporary Purchases of Loans in Forbearance
April 20, 2020 – Freddie Mac Announcement Regarding Loans with COVID‐19 Forbearance and Aligned Loan Removal Policy
April 1, 2020 – Freddie Mac Announces New SOFR ARM Prefixes
March 5, 2020 – Property Valuation Method: Historical Issuance File
January 14, 2020 – Freddie Mac Evaluating the Potential Impact of LIBOR Cessation on an Expanded Set of Legacy CMO Bonds
January 13, 2020 – Freddie Mac Securities Disclosure Enhancement: Property Valuation Method
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2019
December 13, 2019 – Open MultiLender Pools Report Now on Bloomberg; Exchange 2020 Booking & Settlement Calendar
November 26, 2019 – Freddie Mac Evaluating the Potential Impact of LIBOR Cessation on Legacy CMO Bonds that used the “LIBO Method”
November 12, 2019 – Freddie Mac Announces 2020 Mortgage Security Disclosure Holiday Schedule
November 6, 2019 – Freddie Mac Announces Reporting Error by One Servicer Affecting November 2019 Factors
October 15, 2019 – Freddie Mac Announces Separate Single-Family and Multifamily Disclosure Guides
June 20, 2019 – Freddie Mac Announces Redisclosure of June 2019 Pool Level Delinquency Disclosure
June 12, 2019 – Freddie Mac Announces Planned Redisclosure of June 2019 Pool Level Delinquency Disclosure
June 5, 2019 – Freddie Mac Announces Pool Prefixes for Fixed-Rate Assumable MBS
April 25, 2019 – Freddie Mac Mini Pools TBA-Eligibility
April 23, 2019 – Freddie Mac Announces Updates to PCs for Investor Reporting Change Initiative
April 10, 2019 – Freddie Mac Announces Additional Multifamily PC Prefix
March 7, 2019 – Freddie Mac Announces Update of Daily Pay-off Reports
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2018
December 3, 2018 – Freddie Mac Confirms Release of Disclosure Files/Factors on December 6th
November 19, 2018 – Freddie Mac Announces 2019 Mortgage Security Disclosure Holiday Schedule
October 4, 2018 – Freddie Mac Announces Update of Daily Pay-off Reports
September 28, 2018 – Freddie Mac Offers Discounted Giants to Support Single Security Exchange Preparation
September 24, 2018 – Freddie Mac Affirms Treatment of Loans With Disaster Forbearance in PCs for Hurricane Florence and Future Disasters
May 1, 2018 – Mirror Test Files and Exchange-Eligible Freddie Mac PCs and Giants
April 4, 2018 – Mirror Issuance Schedule and a new Prefix Library
March 21, 2018 – Freddie Mac Announces New Pool Prefixes for Single Family Alignment Overflow Cash PCs and Alignment Overflow Giant PCs
February 23, 2018 – Freddie Mac Announces Update of Daily Payoff Reports
February 9, 2018 – Freddie Mac Announces Revision to Adjust Previous Security Payment Logic
January 18, 2018 – Freddie Mac Announces Floating Rate Taxable Multi PC Prefix
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2017
December 8, 2017 – Freddie Mac Announces Additional Multifamily PC Prefix
November 10, 2017 – Freddie Mac Announces 2018 Mortgage Security Disclosure Holiday Schedule
September 22, 2017 – Freddie Mac Announces Retirement of Index Amortization Pools
February 21, 2017 – Freddie Mac Announces 55-day Interest Only Multifamily PC Prefix
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2016
November 16, 2016 – Freddie Mac Announces 2017 Mortgage Security Disclosure Holiday Schedule
June 1, 2016 – Freddie Mac Announces New High LTV Gold PC Prefix
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2015
November 23, 2015 – Freddie Mac Announces 2016 Mortgage Security Disclosure Holiday Schedule
April 7, 2015 – Freddie Mac Announces Revision to the Release Time of Monthly Factor Files
March 16, 2015 – Freddie Mac Announces Discontinuation of GNMA-backed Giant Securities Program
March 2, 2015 – Freddie Mac Announces New Pool Prefix Range for 30-year Giant Gold PC
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2014
December 1, 2014 – Freddie Mac Announces Replacement for Discontinued CD Index
November 17, 2014 – Freddie Mac Announces 2015 Mortgage Security Disclosure Holiday Schedule
July 1, 2014 – Freddie Mac Announces Additional Multifamily PC Prefix
April 30, 2014 – Notice to Holders of Freddie Mac Securities Utilizing "BBA LIBOR"
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2013
November 22, 2013 – Freddie Mac Announces 2014 Mortgage Security Disclosure Holiday Schedule
November 12, 2013 – Freddie Mac Announces Disclosure of Cash and Market PC Pools Comprising MultiLender Giant PCs
October 1, 2013 – Freddie Mac Announces New Prefixes for Modified Step Rate Mortgage Gold PCs
July 11, 2013 – Notice to Holders of Freddie Mac REMIC Securities Utilizing the "LIBO Method" of LIBOR Determination
June 13, 2013 – Freddie Mac Announces Reference Pool Disclosure File Format – In Support of Risk-Sharing Objective
May 23, 2013 – Freddie Mac Announces New Pool- and Loan-level Disclosures for Fixed-Rate Modified Gold PCs
March 15, 2013 – Freddie Mac Announces Freddie Mac Cash Fixed-Rate Gold PC Prefixes
March 1, 2013 – Freddie Mac Announces New Prefixes for Modified Mortgage Gold PCs
February 19, 2013 – Freddie Mac Announces File Format Changes to Monthly Fixed Rate Factor File
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2012
November 19, 2012 – Freddie Mac Announces New Pool Prefix Range for 20-year Strips
November 9, 2012 – Freddie Mac Announces 2013 Mortgage Security Disclosure Holiday Schedule
November 1, 2012 – Freddie Mac Announces New Pool Prefix Range for 20-year TBA Gold PC
June 1, 2012 – Freddie Mac Enhanced Disclosures for Reinstated Mortgage Gold PC
May 25, 2012 – Freddie Mac Announces New Loan Age MultiLender Gold PC Prefixes
March 8, 2012 – Freddie Mac Announces High LTV >125% Fixed-Rate Gold PC Prefixes
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2011
December 7, 2011 – Freddie Mac Announces 2012 Mortgage-Security Disclosure Holiday Schedule
November 17, 2011 – Freddie Mac Announces Reinstated Mortgage Gold PC
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2004-2010
November 22, 2010 – Freddie Mac Announces 2011 Mortgage-Security Disclosure Holiday Schedule
May 3, 2010> – Freddie Mac Announces New Pool Prefix Range for 30-yr TBA Gold PC
December 11, 2009 pdf – Freddie Mac Announces 2010 Mortgage Security Disclosure Holiday Schedule
September 25, 2009 – Freddie Mac Announces High LTV Fixed-Rate Gold PC, >105% Prefixes
April 17, 2009 – Freddie Mac Announces Changes to Giant Program Fee Structure
November 25, 2008 – Freddie Mac Announces Additional Initial InterestSM ARM PC Prefix
November 20, 2008 – Freddie Mac Announces 2009 Mortgage-Security Disclosure Holiday Schedule
June 16, 2008 – Freddie Mac Announces Additional Initial InterestSM PC Prefixes
April 21, 2008 – Freddie Mac Announces Additional Initial InterestSM Gold PC, 40-Year Gold PC and ARM PC Prefixes
March 24, 2008 – Freddie Mac Announces New Jumbo Conforming PC Prefixes
November 27, 2007 – Freddie Mac Announces 2008 Mortgage-Security Disclosure Holiday Calendar
August 31, 2007 – Freddie Mac Announces Structured Pass-Through Certificates Series T-003 Redemption
August 2, 2007 – Freddie Mac Announces New Tax Reporting Disclosure for Certain Mortgage-Backed Securities
July 16, 2007 – Freddie Mac Announces Additional Initial InterestSM PC Prefix
July 5, 2007 – Freddie Mac Announces Replacement Indices for ARM PCs Previously Tied to Fannie Mae LIBOR Indices
March 30, 2007 – Freddie Mac Announces Structured Pass-Through Certificates Series T019 Redemption
January 31, 2007 – Freddie Mac Announces Implementation Delay for H7 and H8 Prefixes
December 4, 2006 – Freddie Mac Announces 2007 Mortgage-Security Disclosure Holiday Calendar
November 20, 2006 – Freddie Mac Announces Additional Initial InterestSM and Minimum Servicing PC Prefixes
October 2, 2006 – Freddie Mac Announces Requirements for Free Giant PCs
September 1, 2006 – Freddie Mac Announces 40-Year Gold PC Prefixes
August 7, 2006 – Series T071 Additional Settlement Disclosure – Prepayment Penalties
June 30, 2006 – Freddie Mac Announces Minimum Servicing Prefix
June 22, 2006 – Freddie Mac Extends Free 15-year Giant Program Through August 2006
June 20, 2006 – Freddie Mac Announces Structured Pass-Through Certificates Series T-006 Redemptions
June 12, 2006 – Original Loan Size Disclosure Changes on Bloomberg
June 8, 2006 – Freddie Mac Enhances Loan-level Disclosures to Include New Property Type Code
June 1, 2006 – Series T070 Additional Settlement Disclosure – Prepayment Penalties
June 1, 2006 – Freddie Mac Announces Additional Minimum Servicing Prefixes
May 23, 2006 – Freddie Mac Modifies Original Loan Term Calculation
April 19, 2006 – Freddie Mac Changes Name of Reference Pools to Index Amortization PoolsSM
April 4, 2006 – Series T069 Additional Settlement Disclosure – Prepayment Penalties
March 17, 2006 – Series T063, T064, T065, T066, T067 and T068 Additional Settlement Disclosure – Prepayment Penalties
December 12, 2005 – Freddie Mac Announces it will Expand its Giant PC Program to Include Four Additional Products
November 21, 2005 – Freddie Mac Announces 2006 Mortgage-Security Disclosure Holiday Schedule
November 7, 2005 – Freddie Mac Announces H2 and 1P PC Prefixes
September 28 , 2005 – X0 Prefix Announced
September 22 , 2005 – Freddie Mac Announces Structured Pass-Through Certificates series T-022 Redemptions
August 15, 2005 – Test Files for September PC Disclosure Changes
July 29, 2005 – Freddie Mac Announces Structured Pass-Through Certificates Series T-025 Redemptions
July 27, 2005 – Freddie Mac Announces Structured Pass-Through Certificates Series T-033 Redemptions
July 27, 2005 – Freddie Mac Announces Structured Pass-Through Certificates Series T-028 Redemptions
July 21, 2005 – Retirement of Reference Pools Announced
June 27, 2005 – Series T061 and T062 Additional Settlement Disclosure - Prepayment Penalties
June 24, 2005 – Updated Disclosure Pursuant to April 13, 2005 Press Release
June 17, 2005 – Preliminary Giant PC Disclosure
May 24, 2005 – Updated Disclosure Pursuant to April 13, 2005 Press Release
May 13, 2005 – Pool Prefix Ranges Announced
March 25, 2005 – Initial Interest Prefixes Announced
February 2, 2005 – New Giant PC Disclosure File Announcement
January 24, 2005 – Structured Pass-Through Certificates Series T-026 Redemptions
January 19, 2005 – Structured Pass-Through Certificates Series T-029 Redemptions
January 13, 2005 – Structured Pass-Through Certificates Series T-029 Redemptions
December 30, 2004 – Structured Pass-Through Certificates Series T-029 Redemptions
November 22, 2004 – Minimum Servicing Prefixes
November 12, 2004 – 2005 Disclosure Calendar
August 4, 2004 – Non-Sticky Jump/Sticky Jump Issuance Changes
June 16, 2004 – Six-Month LIBOR Hybrid ARM PC Prefix Announced
June 8, 2004 – Initial Interest PC Prefixes Announced
June 1, 2004 – Freddie Mac Enhances Pool Supplement Information
June 1, 2004> – Freddie Mac Introduces New Giant PC Program Pooling Requirements
May 25, 2004 – Minimum Denomination Change for NAS/AS and NSJ/SJ
May 3, 2004 – Redemption of T-018
April 30, 2004 – Test Files for July PC Disclosure Changes
April 22, 2004 – Enhanced PC Disclosure Practices
April 22, 2004 – WALA Theoretical Example
April 22, 2004 – PCs Impacted by Predictive Payoff Component
April 22, 2004 – Updated PC Disclosure Guide
April 7, 2004 – New Prefix for 20-Year FHA/VA Pools
March 26, 2004 – Redemption of CMO-D4
March 24, 2004 – Enhancements to MutiLender Swap Program
March 15, 2004 – Redemption of C007
February 26, 2004 – New Quartile Data Labels for Pools