Company: FMCCN
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001026214-25-000040
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Company: FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 15
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 exercisable. We recognize the payments we make to transfer credit risk under freestanding credit enhancements, which primarily consist of STACR Trust notes and ACIS transactions in Single-Family, in credit enhancement expense in our consolidated statements of income when they are incurred. We recognize expected recoveries from such transactions in other assets with an offsetting reduction to non-interest expense, at the same time that we recognize an allowance for credit losses on the covered loans, measured on the same basis as the allowance for credit losses on the covered loans. Credit enhancements that are not freestanding contracts are considered when measuring our allowance for credit losses. See Note 6 for additional information on credit enhancements that are not freestanding contracts.MultifamilySecuritization ProductsK CertificatesIn a senior subordinate K Certificate transaction, we sell multifamily loans to a non-Freddie Mac trust that issues senior and subordinate securities, and simultaneously purchase and place the senior securities into a Freddie Mac trust that issues guaranteed K Certificates. In these transactions, we guarantee the senior securities issued by the non-Freddie Mac trust but do not issue or guarantee the subordinate securities. We receive a guarantee fee in exchange for our guarantee. In certain of our K Certificate securitizations, we may also serve as master servicer. However, in contrast to most single-family transactions, the rights to direct loss mitigation activities of the underlying loans and to purchase delinquent loans from the securitization trust are generally held by the investor in the most subordinate remaining securities issued by the non-Freddie Mac trust, and therefore we do not have the power to direct those activities unless we are the investor in the most subordinate remaining securities. We do not typically invest in the subordinate securities issued in our K Certificate transactions.The economic performance of our K Certificate trusts is most significantly affected by the performance of the underlying loans. We do not consolidate our K Certificate securitization trusts that have subordination because we do not have the ability to direct the loss mitigation activities of the underlying loans, which is the most significant activity affecting the economic performance of the VIE.  When we sell loans in a senior subordinate K Certificate transaction, we derecognize the transferred loans and account for our guarantee to the nonconsolidated VIE. We account for our investments in the beneficial interests issued by the trusts used in our senior subordinate K Certificate transactions as investments in debt securities.

FREDDIE MAC  |  2024 Form 10-K147

Financial StatementsNotes to Consolidated Financial