Fannie Mae Prices $622 Million Connecticut Avenue Securities (CAS) REMIC Deal

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Apr 27, 2023, 10:00 ET

WASHINGTON, April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) priced Connecticut Avenue Securities^® (CAS) Series 2023-R03, an approximately $622 million note offering that represents Fannie Mae's third 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 2023-R03 consists of approximately 113,000 single-family mortgage loans with an outstanding unpaid principal balance of approximately $38.0 billion. The reference pool includes collateral with loan-to-value ratios of 80.01 percent to 97.00 percent, which were acquired between January 2022 and May 2022. 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.

Fannie Mae will retain a portion of the 2M-1, 2M-2, and 2B-1 tranches, and initially will retain the full 2B-2H and 2B-3H first-loss tranches.

Class	Offered Amount ($MM)	Pricing Level	Expected Ratings (Moody's/KBRA)
2M-1	$342.687	30-day Average SOFR plus 250 bps	Baa2 (sf) / A- (sf)
2M-2	$216.432	30-day Average SOFR plus 390 bps	Baa3 (sf) / BBB+ (sf)
2B-1	$62.652	30-day Average SOFR plus 635 bps	Ba3 (sf) / BBB- (sf)

Nomura Securities International Inc. ("Nomura") is the lead structuring manager and joint bookrunner. Morgan Stanley & Co, LLC ("Morgan Stanley") is the co-lead manager and joint bookrunner. Co-managers are BofA Securities, Inc. ("BofA"), Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. ("Cantor"), StoneX Financial Inc. ("StoneX"), and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC ("Wells Fargo"). Selling group members are Service-Disabled Veteran-owned Drexel Hamilton, LLC and African-American- & women-owned Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC.

With the completion of this transaction, Fannie Mae will have brought 56 CAS deals to market, issued over $61 billion in notes, and transferred a portion of the credit risk to private investors on over $2 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 are designed to help European Union and United Kingdom institutional investors and those managing funds subject to EU/UK regulations.

In addition to our flagship CAS program, Fannie Mae continues to transfer mortgage credit risk through its Credit Insurance Risk Transfer^™ (CIRT^™) 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.

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Statements in this release regarding the company's future CAS transactions are forward-looking. Actual results may be materially different as a result of market conditions or other factors listed in "Risk Factors" or "Forward-Looking Statements" in the company's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022. This release does not constitute an offer or sale of any security. Before investing in any Fannie Mae issued security, potential investors should review the disclosure for such security and consult their own investment advisors.

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