Article: Freddie Mac wins more business from heavyweight lenders. (Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.)

WASHINGTON -- The nation's top mortgage lenders are showing a new interest in Freddie Mac.

By one key measure, industry leader Countrywide Funding Corp. nearly quadrupled its business with the agency in 1993. The agency issued securities backed by some $11.3 billion of Countrywide loans, up from $2.9 billion in 1992. By contrast, Fannie Mae's securitization of Countrywide loans climbed by just one-third from the previous year, to $14.9 billion.

Some big lenders that had done relatively little business with Freddie Mac in the past vaulted into the ranks of the agency's top customers in 1993. Among them: Norwest Mortgage Inc. of Des Moines, Chemical Bank ...

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