Company: MFAN
Filing Date: 2025-12-12
Form Type: S-8 POS
Source: 0001104659-25-120645
Chunk: 2

Company: MFA FINANCIAL, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-12-12
Form: S-8 POS
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FA FINANCIAL, INC. |                                             |
| By:                 | /s/ Craig L. Knutson                        |
|                     | Name: Craig L. Knutson                      |
|                     | Title: Chief Executive Officer and Director |

<div align='center'>POWER OF ATTORNEY</div>

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears
below constitutes and appoints Craig L. Knutson, Michael C. Roper and Harold E. Schwartz, and each of them, with full power to act without
the other, such person’s true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him
and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any amendments (including this post-effective amendment) to this
Registration Statement, and to file the same, with exhibits and schedules thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the
SEC, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act
and thing necessary or desirable to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could
do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their or his substitute or
substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
this post-effective amendment has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

| Name and Signature    
 /s/ Craig L. Knutson  |     | Title                                                                             
 Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer)                |     | Date              
 December 12, 2025 |
|:----------------------|:----|:----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:----|:------------------|
| Craig L. Knutson      |     |                                                                                   |     |                   |
| /s/ Michael C. Roper  |     | Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer)   |     | December 12, 2025 |
| Michael C. Roper      |     |                                                                                   |     |                   |
| /s/ Bryan Doran       |     | Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer (Principal Accounting Officer) |     | December 12,