OREANDA-NEWS. Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) announces its intent to sell its fourth offering this year of Structured Agency Credit Risk (STACR®) debt notes, pending market conditions. Through the award-winning and innovative STACR program, Freddie Mac transfers a portion of its credit risk on certain single-family loans to private capital market investors.

J.P. Morgan and Citigroup will serve as co-lead managers and joint bookrunners.

With the STACR 2016-HQA2 offering of loans with LTVs ranging from 80 to 95 percent, Freddie Mac holds the senior loss risk in the capital structure and a portion of the risk in the Class M-1, M-2 and M-3 tranches, and the first loss Class B tranche.

STACR 2016-HQA2 has a reference pool of single-family mortgages with an unpaid principal balance of more than $18.4 billion. The reference pool consists of a subset of 30-year fixed-rate single-family mortgages recently acquired by Freddie Mac.

Freddie Mac has a STACR issuance calendar to help investors plan their allocations. The calendar is available on the Credit Risk Offerings page of the company's web site at www.FreddieMac.com.

This announcement is not an offer to sell any Freddie Mac securities. Offers for any given security are made only through applicable offering circulars and related supplements, which incorporate Freddie Mac's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on February 18, 2016; all other reports Freddie Mac filed with the SEC pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act) since December 31, 2015, excluding any information furnished to the SEC on Form 8-K; and all documents that Freddie Mac files with the SEC pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c) or 14 of the Exchange Act, excluding any information furnished to the SEC on Form 8-K.