Fannie Mae Earnings 2020-12-31

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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Form 10-K

☑ ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020

☐ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from

Commission file number: 0-50231

Federal National Mortgage Association

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Fannie Mae

Federally chartered corporation

52-0883107

1100 15th Street, NW

800

232-6643

Washington,

20005

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:


Title of each class	Trading Symbol(s)	Name of each exchange on which registered
None	N/A	N/A

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:


Common Stock, without par value
8.25% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series T, stated value $25 per share
Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series S, stated value $25 per share
7.625% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series R, stated value $25 per share
6.75% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series Q, stated value $25 per share
Variable Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series P, stated value $25 per share
Variable Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series O, stated value $50 per share
5.375% Non-Cumulative Convertible Series 2004-1 Preferred Stock, stated value $100,000 per share
5.50% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series N, stated value $50 per share
4.75% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series M, stated value $50 per share
5.125% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series L, stated value $50 per share
5.375% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series I, stated value $50 per share
5.81% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series H, stated value $50 per share
Variable Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series G, stated value $50 per share
Variable Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series F, stated value $50 per share
5.10% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series E, stated value $50 per share
5.25% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series D, stated value $50 per share

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Accelerated filer

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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. o

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ☐ No þ

The aggregate market value of the common stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant computed by reference to the last reported sale price of the common stock quoted on the OTCQB, operated by OTC Markets Group, Inc., on June 30, 2020 (the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter) was approximately $2.5 billion.

As of February 1, 2021, there were 1,158,087,567 shares of common stock of the registrant outstanding.


Table of Contents
		Page
PART I
Item 1.	Business	1
	Introduction	1
	Executive Summary	2
	Summary of Our Financial Performance	2
	COVID-19 Impact	3
	Our Mission and Charter	5
	Mortgage Securitizations	6
	Managing Mortgage Credit Risk	9
	Conservatorship, Treasury Agreements and Housing Finance Reform	12
	Legislation and Regulation	19
	Human Capital	29
	Where You Can Find Additional Information	30
	Forward-Looking Statements	30
Item 1A.	Risk Factors	34
Item 1B.	Unresolved Staff Comments	57
Item 2.	Properties	57
Item 3.	Legal Proceedings	57
Item 4.	Mine Safety Disclosures	59
PART II
Item 5.	Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities	60
Item 6.	Selected Financial Data	61
Item 7.	Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations	63
	Key Market Economic Indicators	63
	Consolidated Results of Operations	67
	Consolidated Balance Sheet Analysis	79
	Retained Mortgage Portfolio	80
	Guaranty Book of Business	83
	Business Segments	84
	Single-Family Business	85
	Single-Family Mortgage Market	87
	Single-Family Market Activity	88
	Single-Family Business Metrics	90
	Single-Family Business Financial Results	91
	Single-Family Mortgage Credit Risk Management	94
	Multifamily Business	122
	Multifamily Mortgage Market	124
	Multifamily Market Activity	125
	Multifamily Business Metrics	125
	Multifamily Business Financial Results	128
	Multifamily Mortgage Credit Risk Management	129
	Liquidity and Capital Management	136


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	Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements	145
	Risk Management	147
	Mortgage Credit Risk Management	149
	Institutional Counterparty Credit Risk Management	151
	Market Risk Management, including Interest-Rate Risk Management	159
	Liquidity and Funding Risk Management	164
	Operational Risk Management	164
	Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates	165
	Impact of Future Adoption of New Accounting Guidance	166
	Glossary of Terms Used in This Report	166
Item 7A.	Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk	169
Item 8.	Financial Statements and Supplementary Data	169
Item 9.	Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure	169
Item 9A.	Controls and Procedures	169
Item 9B.	Other Information	174
PART III
Item 10.	Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance	174
	Directors	174
	Corporate Governance	178
	ESG Matters	185
	Report of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors	188
	Executive Officers	190
Item 11.	Executive Compensation	192
	Compensation Discussion and Analysis	192
	Compensation Committee Report	210
	Compensation Risk Assessment	210
	Compensation Tables and Other Information	211
Item 12.	Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters	219
Item 13.	Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence	220
	Policies and Procedures Relating to Transactions with Related Persons	220
	Transactions with Related Persons	222
	Director Independence	223
Item 14.	Principal Accounting Fees and Services	225
PART IV
Item 15.	Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules	226
Item 16.	Form 10-K Summary	228
INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS		F-1


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PART I



			We have been under conservatorship, with the Federal Housing Finance Agency (“FHFA”) acting as conservator, since September 6, 2008. As conservator, FHFA succeeded to all rights, titles, powers and privileges of the company, and of any shareholder, officer or director of the company with respect to the company and its assets. The conservator has since provided for the exercise of certain authorities by our Board of Directors. Our directors do not have any fiduciary duties to any person or entity except to the conservator and, accordingly, are not obligated to consider the interests of the company, the holders of our equity or debt securities, or the holders of Fannie Mae MBS unless specifically directed to do so by the conservator.
			We do not know when or how the conservatorship will terminate, what further changes to our business will be made during or following conservatorship, what form we will have and what ownership interest, if any, our current common and preferred stockholders will hold in us after the conservatorship is terminated or whether we will continue to exist following conservatorship. FHFA established 2020 performance objectives for us that included preparing for our eventual exit from conservatorship. Congress and the Administration continue to consider options for reform of the housing finance system, including Fannie Mae.
			We are not permitted to pay dividends or other distributions to stockholders other than the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) and, if we attain and maintain sufficient capital to meet the capital requirements and buffers recently established by FHFA for two consecutive quarters, we will not be able to retain any additional capital reserves. Our agreements with Treasury include a commitment from Treasury to provide us with funds to maintain a positive net worth under specified conditions; however, the U.S. government does not guarantee our securities or other obligations. Our agreements with Treasury also include covenants that significantly restrict our business activities. For additional information on the conservatorship, the uncertainty of our future, our agreements with Treasury, and recent developments relating to housing finance reform, see “Conservatorship, Treasury Agreements and Housing Finance Reform,” “Legislation and Regulation” and “Risk Factors.”

Forward-looking statements in this report are based on management’s current expectations and are subject to significant uncertainties and changes in circumstances, as we describe in “Business—Forward-Looking Statements.” Future events and our future results may differ materially from those reflected in our forward-looking statements due to a variety of factors, including those discussed in “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this report.

You can find a “Glossary of Terms Used in This Report” in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (‘MD&A’).”

Item 1. Business

Introduction

Fannie Mae is a leading source of financing for mortgages in the United States, with $4.0 trillion in assets as of December 31, 2020. Organized as a government-sponsored entity, Fannie Mae is a shareholder-owned corporation. Our charter is an act of Congress, and we have a mission under that charter to provide liquidity and stability to the residential mortgage market and to promote access to mortgage credit. We were initially established in 1938.

Our revenues are primarily driven by guaranty fees we receive for assuming the credit risk on loans underlying the mortgage-backed securities we issue. We do not originate loans or lend money directly to borrowers. Rather, we primarily work with lenders who originate loans to borrowers. We securitize those loans into Fannie Mae mortgage-backed securities that we guarantee (which we refer to as Fannie Mae MBS or our MBS).

Effectively managing credit risk is key to our business. In exchange for assuming credit risk on the loans we acquire, we receive guaranty fees. These fees take into account the credit risk characteristics of the loans we acquire and consist of two primary components:

•Loan-level pricing adjustments, which are upfront fees received when we acquire single-family loans.

•Base guaranty fees, which we receive monthly over the life of the loan.

Guaranty fees are set at the time we acquire loans and do not change over the life of the loan. How long a loan remains in our guaranty book is heavily dependent on interest rates. When interest rates decrease, a larger portion of our book of business turns over as more loans refinance. On the other hand, as interest rates increase, fewer loans refinance and our book turns over more slowly. Since guaranty fees are set at the time a loan is originated, the impact of any change in guaranty fees on future revenues is dependent on the rate at which loans in our book of business turn over and new loans are originated.


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Executive Summary

Please read this summary together with our MD&A, our consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2020 and the accompanying notes.

Summary of Our Financial Performance

2020 vs. 2019

•Net revenues increased $3.4 billion compared to 2019, primarily driven by an increase in net amortization income as a result of record levels of refinancing activity in 2020. Interest rates declined to historically low levels in 2020 and remained low throughout the majority of the year. Due to this trend, refinance activity grew, resulting in approximately 38% of the loans in our single-family conventional guaranty book of business as of December 31, 2020 being originated during the year. We expect loans originated in the current environment will be less likely to refinance in the future, slowing the pace at which loans in our book of business turn over in future years. A slower turnover rate would limit the impact that changes in our guaranty fees have on our future revenues as any changes would take longer to meaningfully impact the average charged guaranty fee on our total book of business.

•Net income decreased $2.4 billion compared to 2019, primarily driven by a shift from credit-related income to credit-related expense, driven by the economic dislocation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and lower redesignation activity, as well as a reduction in investment gains driven by a decrease in the volume of reperforming loan sales. This was partially offset by the increase in net revenues from higher net amortization income discussed above.

•Net worth increased by $10.7 billion to $25.3 billion in 2020. The increase is attributed to $11.8 billion of comprehensive income for the twelve months ended December 31, 2020 offset by a charge of $1.1 billion to retained earnings due to our implementation of Accounting Standards Update 2016-13, Financial Instruments—Credit Losses, Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments and related amendments (the “CECL standard”) on January 1, 2020. See “Note 1, Summary of Significant Accounting Policies—New Accounting Guidance—The Current Expected Credit Loss Standard” for further details on our implementation of the CECL standard. Our future net worth will be impacted by recent changes in our obligation to pay dividends to Treasury, which are described in “Conservatorship, Treasury Agreements and Housing Finance Reform—Treasury Agreements.”


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2019 vs. 2018

•Net revenues remained flat from 2018 to 2019. There was an increase in guaranty fee income due to an increase in the size of our guaranty book of business, as well as an increase in our average guaranty fee charged, offset by a reduction in net interest income from our portfolio as we continued to reduce the size of our legacy assets.

•Net income decreased $1.8 billion compared to 2018, primarily driven by a shift from fair value gains in 2018 to fair value losses in 2019 as a result of decreasing interest rates throughout most of 2019. Additionally, credit enhancement expenses grew as we increased the percentage of our guaranty book of business covered by credit risk transfer transactions. The decrease in net income was partially offset by an increase in investment gains due to an increase in gains on sales of single-family HFS loans and by an increase in credit-related income primarily driven by a decrease in actual and projected interest rates in 2019.

•Net worth increased $8.4 billion in 2019. The increase is attributed to $14.0 billion of comprehensive income offset by $5.6 billion of dividends paid to the Treasury.

Long-term financial performance. Our long-term financial performance will depend on many factors, including:

•the size of and our share of the U.S. mortgage market, which in turn will depend upon population growth, household formation and housing supply;

•borrower performance, the guaranty fees we charge, and changes in macroeconomic factors, including home prices and interest rates; and

•actions by FHFA, the Administration and Congress relating to our business and housing finance reform, including the capital requirements that will be applicable to us, our ongoing financial obligations to Treasury, restrictions on our activities and our business footprint, our competitive environment, and actions we are required to take to support borrowers or the mortgage market.

As described further in “COVID-19 Impact” and “Risk Factors,” the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected our financial performance and we expect that it will continue to do so. Given the unprecedented nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is difficult to assess or predict the long-term effects of the pandemic on our financial performance.

COVID-19 Impact

In March 2020, the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States was declared a national emergency. The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in stay-at-home orders, school closures and widespread business shutdowns across the country. Although business activity and community life have resumed to varying degrees, the future path of economic activity remains highly uncertain.

The pandemic continues to have a significant impact on our business and on our financial results. We provide a brief overview below of the economic impact of the pandemic, our response to it, and the pandemic’s impact on our business and financial results.

Economic Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic caused substantial financial market volatility and has significantly adversely affected both the U.S. and global economies. Although the economy has improved significantly since the second quarter of 2020, business activity remains below the level before the onset of the pandemic, and unemployment remains substantially higher than pre-pandemic levels. Continued high levels of new daily cases of COVID-19 in the U.S., combined with concerns about the emergence of new, more infectious variants of the coronavirus, have led to new shut-downs in various locales and reductions in business activity, with increased risk of additional public-health measures. The federal government has taken and continues to take many actions to reduce the negative economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. For example, the Federal Reserve lowered the federal funds rate and increased its purchases of Treasury and mortgage-backed securities, purchased corporate debt securities, and established and expanded liquidity facilities to support the flow of credit to consumers and businesses. In addition, the federal government passed legislation increasing and expanding unemployment benefits, providing direct cash payments to eligible taxpayers, allocating funds to assist businesses, states, and municipalities, and providing rental assistance, as well as mandating forbearance programs and eviction moratoriums.

The disruption caused by the pandemic differs from previous economic downturns because of the high level of uncertainty related to the health and safety of consumers and workers. We expect the path and timing of economic recovery will be impacted by the success of vaccination efforts and fiscal stimulus. We believe that sustained economic recovery depends on continued growth in consumer spending, increased business activity, and an associated reduction in unemployment, all of which impact the ability of borrowers and renters to make their monthly payments. The


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pandemic resulted in a contraction in U.S. gross domestic product (“GDP”) in the first half of 2020 that was not entirely offset by growth in the second half of the year. See “MD&A—Key Market Economic Indicators” for information on macroeconomic conditions during 2020 and our current forecasts regarding future macroeconomic conditions.

Fannie Mae Response

We are taking a number of actions to help borrowers, renters, lenders and servicers manage the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, including:

•providing payment forbearance (that is, a temporary suspension or reduction of the borrower’s monthly mortgage payments) to single-family and multifamily borrowers with COVID-19-related financial hardships;

•suspending most single-family foreclosures and evictions;

•conducting outreach efforts to provide borrowers and renters with information on the relief options available to them, including our #HeretoHelp media campaign and updating our KnowYourOptions.com website;

•providing lenders and servicers temporary flexibilities for some of our Selling Guide and Servicing Guide requirements; and

•providing liquidity to lenders by purchasing a higher-than-usual volume of single-family loans through our whole loan conduit.

We have also taken steps to mitigate the risk to Fannie Mae from the impacts of the pandemic, including the following:

•Selling Guide Changes. We have temporarily changed some of our Single-Family Selling Guide requirements to help ensure that up-to-date information is being considered to support the borrower’s ability to repay the loan, such as requiring more recent documentation of borrower employment, income and assets.

•Adverse Market Refinance Fee. We implemented a new adverse market refinance fee for single-family loans in light of the increased costs and risk we expect to incur due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This fee, which became effective in December 2020, is a one-time charge of 0.5% of the loan amount that the lender is required to pay at the time we acquire the loan. For every $1 billion in eligible refinance loans we acquire, we will collect $5 million in adverse market refinance fees. To help ensure that the fee does not negatively impact our affordable housing mission, the fee only applies to eligible single-family loan refinances and does not apply to loans for home purchases, refinance loans with an original principal amount of less than or equal to $125,000, or certain HomeReady® refinance loans. The lender may choose whether to pass on all, some or none of the fee to the borrower. The new fee is intended to help us offset some of the higher projected expenses and risk due to COVID-19, including costs associated with the actions we are taking to help borrowers, lenders and servicers impacted by the pandemic, such as providing forbearances, suspending foreclosures and evictions, and offering repayment plans, payment deferrals and loan modifications.

•Additional Reserve Requirements. To address possible fluctuations in multifamily borrower income and expenses resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, we instituted additional reserve requirements for certain new multifamily loan acquisitions.

See “MD&A—Single-Family Business—Single-Family Mortgage Credit Risk Management” and “MD&A—Multifamily Business—Multifamily Mortgage Credit Risk Management” for more information on the actions we are taking in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

We have also taken steps to help protect the safety and resiliency of our workforce. From mid-March through early October 2020, we required nearly all of our workforce to work remotely. In early October we began allowing employees, on a voluntary basis, to request approval to return to work at some of our office locations and have established mandatory COVID-19 safety protocols for these locations. We expect a significant majority of our employees will continue to work remotely for the foreseeable future. To date, our business resiliency plans and technology systems have effectively supported this telework arrangement.

Impact on our Business and Financial Results

The economic dislocation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic was the primary driver of the decline in our net income in 2020, as compared with 2019. We increased our allowance for loan losses to reflect our expected loan losses as a result of the pandemic, which resulted in increased credit-related expenses. We are also incurring other costs associated with the pandemic, such as paying higher fees to servicers to support providing loss mitigation to borrowers and advancing principal and interest payments to MBS investors for loans in forbearance. As a result, we expect the COVID-19 pandemic to continue to negatively affect our financial results and our returns on capital.

We did not enter into new credit risk transfer transactions in the second quarter of 2020 due to adverse market conditions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Market conditions improved in the second half of 2020, but we have


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not entered into any new transactions as we evaluate their costs and benefits, including a reduction in the capital relief these transactions provide under FHFA’s enterprise regulatory capital framework. We may engage in credit risk transfer transactions in the future, which could help us manage capital and manage within our risk appetite, particularly given the growth and turnover in our book in 2020. The structure of and extent to which we engage in any additional credit risk transfer transactions will be affected by the enterprise regulatory capital framework, our risk appetite, the strength of future market conditions, including the cost of these transactions, and the review of our overall business and capital plan. For information on these transactions and their benefits and costs, see “MD&A—Single-Family Business—Single-Family Mortgage Credit Risk Management—Credit Enhancement and Transfer of Mortgage Credit Risk” and “MD&A—Multifamily Business—Multifamily Mortgage Credit Risk Management—Transfer of Multifamily Mortgage Credit Risk.” See “Legislation and Regulation—GSE Act and Other Legislative and Regulatory Matters—Capital” for information on the enterprise regulatory capital framework.

Also see “MD&A—Retained Mortgage Portfolio,” “MD&A—Liquidity and Capital Management” and “MD&A—Risk Management” for discussions of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business.

Our Mission and Charter

Our Mission

Our mission is to provide liquidity and stability to the residential mortgage market and to promote access to mortgage credit.

This mission is derived from our corporate charter, which is the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act, or the Charter Act. The Charter Act establishes the parameters under which we operate and our purposes, which are to:

•provide stability in the secondary market for residential mortgages;

•respond appropriately to the private capital market;

•provide ongoing assistance to the secondary market for residential mortgages (including activities relating to mortgages on housing for low- and moderate-income families involving a reasonable economic return that may be less than the return earned on other activities) by increasing the liquidity of mortgage investments and improving the distribution of investment capital available for residential mortgage financing; and

•promote access to mortgage credit throughout the nation (including central cities, rural areas and underserved areas) by increasing the liquidity of mortgage investments and improving the distribution of investment capital available for residential mortgage financing.

Our Charter

The Charter Act specifies that our operations are to be financed by private capital to the maximum extent feasible. We are expected to earn reasonable economic returns on all our activities. However, we may accept lower returns on certain activities relating to mortgages on housing for low- and moderate-income families in order to support those segments of the market. We expect the lower returns to be offset by activities that yield higher returns.

Principal balance limitations. To meet our purposes, the Charter Act authorizes us to purchase and securitize mortgage loans secured by single-family and multifamily properties. Our acquisitions of single-family conventional mortgage loans are subject to maximum original principal balance limits, known as “conforming loan limits.” The conforming loan limits are adjusted each year based on FHFA’s housing price index. For 2020, the conforming loan limit for mortgages secured by one-family residences was set at $510,400, with higher limits for mortgages secured by two- to four-family residences and in four statutorily-designated states and territories (Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands). For 2021, FHFA increased the national conforming loan limit for one-family residences to $548,250. In addition, higher loan limits of up to 150% of the otherwise applicable loan limit apply in certain high-cost areas. The Charter Act does not impose maximum original principal balance limits on loans we purchase or securitize that are insured by the Federal Housing Administration (“FHA”) or guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”).

The Charter Act also includes the following provisions:

•Credit enhancement requirements. The Charter Act generally requires credit enhancement on any single-family conventional mortgage loan that we purchase or securitize that has a loan-to-value (“LTV”) ratio over 80% at the time of purchase. The credit enhancement may take the form of one or more of the following: (1) insurance or a guaranty by a qualified insurer on the portion of the unpaid principal balance of a mortgage loan that exceeds 80% of the property value; (2) a seller’s agreement to repurchase or replace the loan in the event of default; or (3) retention by the seller of at least a 10% participation interest in the loan. Regardless of LTV ratio, the Charter


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Act does not require us to obtain credit enhancement to purchase or securitize loans insured by FHA or guaranteed by the VA.

•Issuances of our securities. We are authorized, upon the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, to issue debt obligations and mortgage-related securities. Neither the U.S. government nor any of its agencies guarantees, directly or indirectly, our debt or mortgage-related securities.

•Authority of Treasury to purchase our debt obligations. At the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, Treasury may purchase our debt obligations up to a maximum of $2.25 billion outstanding at any one time.

•Exemption for our securities offerings. Our securities offerings are exempt from registration requirements under the federal securities laws. As a result, we do not file registration statements or prospectuses with the SEC with respect to our securities offerings. However, our equity securities are not treated as exempt securities for purposes of Sections 12, 13, 14 or 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”). Consequently, we are required to file periodic and current reports with the SEC, including annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and current reports on Form 8-K. Our non-equity securities are exempt securities under the Exchange Act.

•Exemption from specified taxes. Fannie Mae is exempt from taxation by states, territories, counties, municipalities and local taxing authorities, except for taxation by those authorities on our real property. We are not exempt from the payment of federal corporate income taxes.

•Limitations. We may not originate mortgage loans or advance funds to a mortgage seller on an interim basis, using mortgage loans as collateral, pending the sale of the mortgages in the secondary market. We may purchase or securitize mortgage loans only on properties located in the United States and its territories.

Liquidity Provided in 2020

We provided over $1.4 trillion in liquidity to the mortgage market in 2020, which enabled the financing of approximately 6 million home purchases, refinancings or rental units. This represents our highest volume of single-family and multifamily acquisitions on record.

Fannie Mae Provided over $1.4 trillion in Liquidity in 2020


Unpaid Principal Balance						Units

$411B						1.5M Single-Family Home Purchases

$948B						3.4M Single-Family Refinancings

$76B						792K Multifamily Rental Units

Mortgage Securitizations

We support market liquidity by issuing Fannie Mae MBS that are readily traded in the capital markets. We create Fannie Mae MBS by placing mortgage loans in a trust and issuing securities that are backed by those mortgage loans. Monthly payments received on the loans are the primary source of payments passed through to Fannie Mae MBS holders. We guarantee to the MBS trust that we will supplement amounts received by the MBS trust as required to permit timely payment of principal and interest on the trust certificates. In return for this guaranty, we receive guaranty fees.

Below we discuss the three broad categories of our securitization transactions and UMBS.

Securitization Transactions

We currently securitize a substantial majority of the single-family and multifamily mortgage loans we acquire. Our securitization transactions primarily fall within three broad categories: lender swap transactions, portfolio securitizations, and structured securitizations.


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Lender Swap Transactions

Our most common type of securitization transaction is our “lender swap transaction.” In a single-family lender swap transaction, a mortgage lender that operates in the primary mortgage market generally delivers a pool of mortgage loans to us in exchange for Fannie Mae MBS backed by these mortgage loans. Lenders may hold the Fannie Mae MBS they receive from us or sell them to investors. A pool of mortgage loans is a group of mortgage loans with similar characteristics. After receiving the mortgage loans in a lender swap transaction, we place them in a trust for which we serve as trustee. This trust is established for the sole purpose of holding the mortgage loans separate and apart from our corporate assets. We guarantee to each MBS trust that we will supplement amounts received by the MBS trust as required to permit timely payment of principal and interest on the related Fannie Mae MBS. We are entitled to a portion of the interest payment as a fee for providing our guaranty. The mortgage servicer also retains a portion of the interest payment as a fee for servicing the loan. Then, on behalf of the trust, we make monthly distributions to the Fannie Mae MBS certificateholders from the principal and interest payments and other collections on the underlying mortgage loans.

Lender Swap Transaction

Our Multifamily business generally creates multifamily Fannie Mae MBS in lender swap transactions in a manner similar to our Single-Family business. Our multifamily lender customers typically deliver only one mortgage loan to back each multifamily Fannie Mae MBS. The characteristics of each mortgage loan are used to establish guaranty fees on a risk-adjusted basis. Securitizing a multifamily mortgage loan into a Fannie Mae MBS facilitates its sale into the secondary market.


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Portfolio Securitization Transactions

We also purchase mortgage loans and mortgage-related securities for securitization and sale at a later date through our “portfolio securitization transactions.” Most of our portfolio securitization transactions are driven by our single-family whole loan conduit activities, pursuant to which we purchase single-family whole loans from a large group of typically smaller lenders principally for the purpose of securitizing the loans into Fannie Mae MBS, which may then be sold to dealers and investors.

Portfolio Securitization Transaction

Structured Securitization Transactions

In a “structured securitization transaction,” we create structured Fannie Mae MBS, typically for our lender customers or securities dealer customers, in exchange for a transaction fee. In these transactions, the customer “swaps” a mortgage-related asset that it owns (typically a mortgage security) in exchange for a structured Fannie Mae MBS we issue. The process for issuing Fannie Mae MBS in a structured securitization is similar to the process involved in our lender swap securitizations described above.

We also issue structured transactions backed by multifamily Fannie Mae MBS through the Fannie Mae Guaranteed Multifamily Structures (“Fannie Mae GeMSTM”) program, which provides additional liquidity and stability to the multifamily market, while expanding the investor base for multifamily Fannie Mae MBS.

Uniform Mortgage-Backed Securities, or UMBS

Overview

In May 2019, we began using the common securitization platform operated by Common Securitization Solutions, LLC (“CSS”), a limited liability company we own jointly with Freddie Mac, to perform certain aspects of the securitization process for our single-family Fannie Mae MBS issuances. In June 2019, we and Freddie Mac began issuing UMBS®. The uniform mortgage-backed security is intended to maximize liquidity for both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage-backed securities in the to-be-announced (“TBA”) market.

UMBS and Structured Securities

Each of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac issues and guarantees UMBS and structured securities backed by UMBS and other securities, as described below.

•UMBS. Each of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac issues and guarantees UMBS that are directly backed by the mortgage loans it has acquired, referred to as “first-level securities.” UMBS issued by Fannie Mae are backed only by mortgage loans that Fannie Mae has acquired, and similarly UMBS issued by Freddie Mac are backed only by mortgage loans that Freddie Mac has acquired. There is no commingling of Fannie Mae- and Freddie Mac-acquired loans within UMBS.

Mortgage loans backing UMBS are limited to fixed-rate mortgage loans eligible for financing through the TBA market. We continue to issue some types of Fannie Mae MBS that are not TBA-eligible and therefore are not


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issued as UMBS, such as single-family Fannie Mae MBS backed by adjustable-rate mortgages and all multifamily Fannie Mae MBS.

•Structured Securities. Each of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac also issues and guarantees structured mortgage-backed securities, referred to as “second-level securities,” that are resecuritizations of UMBS or previously-issued structured securities. In contrast to UMBS, second-level securities can be commingled—that is, they can include both Fannie Mae securities and Freddie Mac securities as the underlying collateral for the security. These structured securities include Supers®, which are single-class resecuritizations, and REMICs, which are multi-class resecuritizations. While Supers are backed only by TBA-eligible securities, REMICs can be backed by TBA-eligible or non-TBA-eligible securities.

The key features of UMBS are the same as those of legacy single-family Fannie Mae MBS. Accordingly, all single-family Fannie Mae MBS that are directly backed by fixed-rate loans and generally eligible for trading in the TBA market are UMBS, whether issued before or after June 3, 2019, when we began issuing UMBS. In this report, we use the term “Fannie Mae-issued UMBS” to refer to single-family Fannie Mae MBS that are directly backed by fixed-rate mortgage loans and generally eligible for trading in the TBA market. We use the term “Fannie Mae MBS” or “our MBS” to refer to any type of mortgage-backed security that we issue, including UMBS, Supers, REMICs and other types of single-family or multifamily mortgage-backed securities. References to our single-family guaranty book of business in this report exclude Freddie Mac-acquired mortgage loans underlying Freddie Mac mortgage-related securities that we have resecuritized.

Common Securitization Platform

The common securitization platform operated by CSS has replaced certain elements of Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s proprietary systems for securitizing single-family mortgages and performing associated back-office and administrative functions. The design of the common securitization platform also allows for the potential integration of additional market participants in the future. We no longer use our individual proprietary securitization function for our single-family MBS issuances. In addition to using the common securitization platform for our newly issued UMBS issuances, we are also now using the common securitization platform for certain ongoing administrative functions for our previously issued and outstanding single-family Fannie Mae MBS. We do not use the common securitization platform operated by CSS for securitizing or performing associated administrative functions for our multifamily Fannie Mae MBS.

We discuss risks posed by our reliance on CSS in “Risk Factors—GSE and Conservatorship Risk.”

Managing Mortgage Credit Risk

Effectively pricing and managing credit risk is key to our business. Below we discuss key elements of how we are compensated for and manage the risk of credit losses through the life cycle of our loans and how we measure our credit risk.

Loan Acquisition Policies

Loans we acquire must be underwritten in accordance with our guidelines and standards.

•In Single-family, the vast majority of loans we acquire are assessed by Desktop Underwriter® (DU®), our proprietary single-family automated underwriting system. DU performs a comprehensive evaluation of the primary risk factors of a mortgage. We regularly review DU’s underlying models to determine whether its risk analysis and eligibility assessment appropriately reflect current market conditions and loan performance data to ensure the loans we acquire are consistent with our risk appetite and FHFA guidance. New business restrictions recently added to our senior preferred stock purchase agreement with Treasury impose additional risk criteria on the loans we acquire and will also be considered in future reviews of DU’s underlying models.

•In Multifamily, we acquire the vast majority of our loans through our Delegated Underwriting and Servicing (DUS®) Program. DUS lenders, who must be pre-approved by us, are delegated the authority to underwrite and service loans for delivery to us in accordance with our standards and requirements. Based on a given loan’s unique characteristics and our established delegation criteria, lenders assess whether a loan must be reviewed by us. If review is required, our internal credit team will assess the loan’s risk profile to determine if it meets our risk tolerances. DUS lenders also share with us the risk of loss on our multifamily loans, thereby aligning our

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10-Q	2019-09-30	Filed 2019-10-31
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10-K	2018-12-31	Filed 2019-02-14
10-Q	2018-09-30	Filed 2018-11-02
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10-K	2017-12-31	Filed 2018-02-14
10-Q	2017-09-30	Filed 2017-11-02
10-Q	2017-06-30	Filed 2017-08-03
10-Q	2017-03-31	Filed 2017-05-05
10-K	2016-12-31	Filed 2017-02-17
10-Q	2016-09-30	Filed 2016-11-03
10-Q	2016-06-30	Filed 2016-08-04
10-Q	2016-03-31	Filed 2016-05-05
10-K	2015-12-31	Filed 2016-02-19
10-Q	2015-09-30	Filed 2015-11-05
10-Q	2015-06-30	Filed 2015-08-06
10-Q	2015-03-31	Filed 2015-05-07
10-K	2014-12-31	Filed 2015-02-20
10-Q	2014-09-30	Filed 2014-11-06
10-Q	2014-06-30	Filed 2014-08-07
10-Q	2014-03-31	Filed 2014-05-08
10-K	2013-12-31	Filed 2014-02-21
10-Q	2013-09-30	Filed 2013-11-07
10-Q	2013-06-30	Filed 2013-08-08
10-Q	2013-03-31	Filed 2013-05-09
10-K	2012-12-31	Filed 2013-04-02
10-Q	2012-09-30	Filed 2012-11-07
10-Q	2012-06-30	Filed 2012-08-08
10-Q	2012-03-31	Filed 2012-05-09
10-K	2011-12-31	Filed 2012-02-29
10-Q	2011-09-30	Filed 2011-11-08
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10-Q	2010-09-30	Filed 2010-11-05
10-Q	2010-06-30	Filed 2010-08-05
10-Q	2010-03-31	Filed 2010-05-10
10-K	2009-12-31	Filed 2010-02-26

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