Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) priced Connecticut Avenue Securities® (CAS) Series 2022-R08, an approximately $626 million note offering that represents Fannie Mae’s eighth 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 2022-R08 consists of approximately 68,000 single-family mortgage loans with an outstanding unpaid principal balance of approximately $20.4 billion. The reference pool includes collateral with loan-to-value ratios of 60.01 percent to 80.00 percent, which were acquired between September 2021 and November 2021. The loans included in this transaction are fixed-rate, generally 30-year term, fully amortizing mortgages and were underwritten using rigorous credit standards and enhanced risk controls.
Fannie Mae will retain a portion of the 1M-1, 1M-2, and 1B-1 tranches, and initially will retain the full 1B-2H and 1B-3H first-loss tranches.
Class |
Offered Amount ($MM) |
Pricing Level |
Expected Ratings (S&P/KBRA) |
1M-1 |
$377.927 |
1-month average SOFR plus 255 bps |
BBB+ (sf) / BBB+ (sf) |
1M-2 |
$125.973 |
1-month average SOFR plus 360 bps |
BBB- (sf) / BBB (sf) |
1B-1 |
$122.404 |
1-month average SOFR plus 560 bps |
BB- (sf) / BB+ (sf) |
BofA Securities, Inc. (“BofA”) is the lead structuring manager and joint bookrunner. StoneX Financial Inc. (“StoneX”) is the co-lead manager and joint bookrunner. Co-managers are Barclays Capital Inc. (“Barclays”), Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (“Credit Suisse”), Nomura Securities International Inc. (“Nomura”), and Morgan Stanley & Co, LLC (“Morgan Stanley”). Selling group members are Hispanic-owned Great Pacific Securities and Hispanic-owned Ramirez & Co., Inc.
With the completion of this transaction, Fannie Mae will have brought 52 CAS deals to market, issued over $58 billion in notes, and transferred a portion of the credit risk to private investors on over $1.9 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 help European Union and UK institutional investors, as well as those managing funds subject to EU/UK regulations comply with EU/UK securitization 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.
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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