Fannie Mae Prices $708 Million Connecticut Avenue Securities (CAS) REMIC Deal
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) priced Connecticut Avenue Securities? (CAS) Series 2024-R06, an approximately $708 million note offering that represents Fannie Mae's sixth and final 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. Year to date, Fannie Mae has issued approximately $4.3 billion of notes under the CAS program.
The reference pool for CAS Series 2024-R06 consists of approximately 50,000 single-family mortgage loans with an outstanding unpaid principal balance of approximately $16.6 billion. The reference pool includes collateral with loan-to-value ratios of 60.01 percent to 80.00 percent, which were acquired between October 2023 and December 2023. The loans included in this transaction are fixed-rate, generally 30-year term, fully amortizing mortgages and were underwritten using rigorous credit standards and enhanced risk controls.
Fannie Mae will retain a portion of the 1A-1, 1M-1, 1M-2, and 1B-1 tranches, and initially will retain the full 1B-2H and 1B-3H first-loss tranches.
| Class | Offered Amount ($MM) | Pricing Level | Expected Ratings (S&P/KBRA) |
| 1A-1 | $212.513 | 30-day Average SOFR plus 115 bps | A+ (sf) / A+ (sf) |
| 1M-1 | $212.513 | 30-day Average SOFR plus 105 bps | BBB+ (sf) / A- (sf) |
| 1M-2 | $165.288 | 30-day Average SOFR plus 160 bps | BBB- (sf) / BBB (sf) |
| 1B-1 | $118.062 | 30-day Average SOFR plus 205 bps | BB- (sf) / BB+ (sf) |
BofA Securities, Inc. ("BofA") is the lead structuring manager and joint bookrunner. Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. ("Cantor") is the co-lead manager and joint bookrunner. Co-managers are Morgan Stanley & Co, LLC ("Morgan Stanley"), Nomura Securities International Inc. ("Nomura"), StoneX Financial Inc. ("StoneX"), and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC ("Wells Fargo"). Selling group members are Academy Securities, Inc. and CastleOak Securities, L.P.
With the completion of this transaction, Fannie Mae will have brought 67 CAS deals to market, issued nearly $69 billion in notes, and transferred a portion of the credit risk to private investors on nearly $2.3 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. Our EU Resources and UK Resources webpages are designed to help European Union and UK institutional investors, as well as those managing funds subject to EU/UK regulations.