• 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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"

  • 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

  • 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

  • 2011

    December 7, 2011 – Freddie Mac Announces 2012 Mortgage-Security Disclosure Holiday Schedule

    November 17, 2011 – Freddie Mac Announces Reinstated Mortgage Gold PC

  • 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