Tag Archives: Credit Risk Transfer

The 2023 Scorecard builds on the progress made by the GSEs in 2022 to strengthen capital position while advancing equitable and sustainable access to homeownership and rental housing nationwide.

Freddie Mac’s Single-Family business announced that its Credit Risk Transfer (CRT) program reported Q2 2022 CRT issuance of approximately $6.5 billion, protecting approximately $151 billion in unpaid principal balance (UPB) of single-family mortgages. The final total was a record for a second ...

With the GSE closing on these latest deals, Fannie Mae has acquired approximately $21 billion of insurance coverage on $709 billion of single-family loans through its CIRT program to date.

A new report says some within the industry are calling for FHFA to shield them from losses they will incur due to mortgage forbearances amid the pandemic.

Having remained apolitical since its inception, the Credit Risk Transfer program may now succumb to political pressure, according to a former Freddie Mac executive.

The record-setting transactions mark a total of $12.9 billion of insurance coverage on $475 billion of single-family loans through the program.

Since the first CRT transaction in 2013, Freddie Mac’s Single-Family CRT program has cumulatively transferred $53 billion in credit risk on $1.4 trillion in mortgages.

In its latest report, Fitch Ratings details projections for future credit events and losses for the first half of 2019. Here’s what it revealed.

An FHFA report crunched the numbers since the GSEs initiated their CRT programs in 2013, and here’s what it revealed.

Rising interest rates and declining volumes leave the GSEs with little room to expand their credit risk transfer transactions. However, CRTs may have room to grow elsewhere in the market.