Fannie’s First Risk Transfer Deal in the Pipeline

Fannie Mae’s inaugural risk transfer transaction, Connecticut Avenue Securities Series 2013-C01, is in the pipeline, according to Fitch Ratings, which said it expects to assign a low-end investment grade rating to the M1 notes.

The ratings agency, which gave the M-1 notes a BBB-sf expected rating, said the deal “employs a very similar structure” as the Freddie Mac risk sharing transaction that closed in July.

A transaction comparison done by Fitch shows the Fannie Mae deal is slightly larger than Freddie Mac’s, about a $28 million collateral loan pool as opposed to roughly a $23 million one.

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