OREANDA-NEWS. Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) announced today that it plans to issue a new five-year USD Reference Notes® security, CUSIP number 3137EAEC9, due on August 12, 2021. The issue will be priced on Thursday, August 11, 2016, and will settle on Friday, August 12, 2016, at benchmark size.

The new five-year Reference Notes security will be offered via a syndicate of dealers headed by Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC.

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.

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