Freddie Mac CEO David Brickman said the GSE has changed, exponentially, in its ability to understand and analyze risk.

Freddie prices more than $2.8 billion in multifamily K-deals; Fannie prices $998 million CAS REMIC.

Fannie Mae last week announced it completed a multi-tranche credit-insurance-risk transfer transaction covering an astonishing $11.7 billion worth of multifamily loans held in portfolio.

To paraphrase Mark Twain: Rumors of HARP’s death have been greatly exaggerated. At least that’s the finding of a recent report by structured finance analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch who looked the impact similar programs will have on the GSEs’ credit-risk transfer programs.

Freddie Mac last week announced the creation of its latest vehicle for credit risk transfer — the Multifamily Credit Insurance Pool.