MCLEAN, Va., March 07, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) today announced pricing of the first Seasoned Credit Risk Transfer Trust (“SCRT”) offering of 2019—a rated securitization of approximately $2.1 billion including both guaranteed senior and unguaranteed subordinate securities backed by a pool of seasoned re-performing loans (“RPLs”). The SCRT securitization program is a fundamental part of Freddie Mac's seasoned loan offerings which reduce less liquid assets in its mortgage-related investments portfolio and sheds credit and market risk via economically reasonable transactions.

Freddie Mac Seasoned Credit Risk Transfer Trust, Series 2019-1 includes approximately $1.9 billion in guaranteed senior certificates and approximately $194 million in unguaranteed mezzanine and subordinate certificates. The transaction is expected to settle on March 13, 2019. The underlying collateral consists of 12,185 fixed- and step-rate modified, seasoned RPLs which were modified to assist borrowers who were at risk of foreclosure to help them keep their homes and will have been performing for at least 12 months as of the cutoff date.

The loans are serviced by Specialized Loan Servicing LLC and will be serviced in accordance with requirements that prioritize borrower retention options in the event of default and promote neighborhood stability.

Advisors to this transaction are Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. as co-lead managers and joint bookrunners, and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Nomura Securities International, Inc., Samuel A. Ramirez & Company, Inc. (a minority–owned business), and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC as the co-managers.

To date, Freddie Mac has sold $8 billion of non-performing loans and securitized over $48 billion of RPLs consisting of $29 billion via fully guaranteed PCs, $16 billion via SCRT transactions, and $3 billion via Seasoned Loan Structured Transaction (“SLST”) transactions. Additional information about the company's seasoned loan offerings can be found at: http://www.freddiemac.com/seasonedloanofferings/

This announcement 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, which incorporate Freddie Mac’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on February 14, 2019; all other reports Freddie Mac filed with the SEC pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act) since December 31, 2018, excluding any information "furnished" to the SEC on Form 8-K; and all documents that Freddie Mac files with the SEC pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c) or 14 of the Exchange Act, excluding any information “furnished” to the SEC on Form 8-K.

Freddie Mac’s press releases sometimes contain forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, some of which are beyond the company’s control. Management’s expectations for the company’s future necessarily involve a number of assumptions, judgments and estimates, and various factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations expressed in these and other forward-looking statements. These assumptions, judgments, estimates and factors are discussed in the company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018, and its reports on Form 10-Q and Form 8-K, which are available on the Investor Relations page of the company’s Web site at www.FreddieMac.com/investors and the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. The company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements it makes to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this press release.

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