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The Wall Street Publication > Blog > Economy > Wall Road banks race to win Trump admin’s favor for large Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac IPO deal
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Wall Road banks race to win Trump admin’s favor for large Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac IPO deal

Editorial Board Published August 15, 2025
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Sources inform FOX Enterprise’ Maria Bartiromo quite a lot of banks are visiting the White Home in an effort to influence President Trump to present them the enterprise of taking Fannie Mae public once more.  

A number of Wall Road banks are pitching President Donald Trump about dealing with the preliminary public providing (IPO) of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, sources instructed FOX Enterprise Community’s Maria Bartiromo.

Bartiromo reported Friday morning on “Mornings with Maria” that, “Wall Street banks are cozying up to President Trump right now because they want the business of the Fannie and Freddie IPOs if that’s where this is going.”

“My sources tell me there are a number of banks who are visiting the White House to try to get President Trump to give them the business to take Fannie Mae public again as they sell their stakes,” Bartiromo stated.

“I can confirm that Bank of America and its leadership was in the Oval Office last week. Citigroup and its leadership was in the Oval Office last week. JPMorgan wants the business, Goldman Sachs wants the business – they all want the IPO,” she stated.

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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are government-sponsored enterprises that had been taken into conservatorship in 2008 amid the monetary disaster. (Al Drago/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)

Bartiromo reported that the deal is anticipated to occur within the fall or winter of 2025 and that the administration is concentrated on getting a return on its investments in Fannie and Freddie, slightly than on elevating capital for the entities.

Bartiromo stated that the preliminary sale of the federal government’s stake in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may very well be upward of $30 billion or extra. That quantity could be roughly the measurement of the IPO of Saudi Aramco, which introduced in proceeds of greater than $29 billion.

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Trump at White House

President Donald Trump is weighing plans to take care of the conservatorships of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)

She mentioned the potential IPOs throughout Thursday’s episode of “Mornings with Maria” throughout an interview with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who stated that “it will depend on the size of the stake and the overall valuation of the companies.”

“We are examining all the options in terms of how to proceed. We’ve had lots of banks coming through. The president is very engaged with this. The housing market is obviously very important in the U.S., we’ve got an affordability crisis,” Bessent stated.

“There are two pieces here, Maria: How can we maximize the value for the U.S. taxpayer with Fannie and Freddie? On the other side, how can we keep mortgage rates – the spread between mortgages and Treasuries – flat or even bring that down to address this terrible affordability crisis in housing that developed during the Biden administration,” Bessent stated.

TRUMP CONSIDERS TAKING MORTGAGE GIANTS FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC PUBLIC

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent delivers remarks at the Institute of International Finance (IIF) Global Outlook Forum on sidelines of the IMF and World Bank’s 2025 annual Spring Meetings in Washington, D.C., on April 23, 2025.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated the Trump administration will look to steadiness a return for taxpayers with protecting mortgages inexpensive. (Reuters/Elizabeth Frantz / Reuters)

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are government-sponsored enterprises that play a key function within the mortgage market by offering liquidity to lenders and guaranteeing lots of the mortgages within the U.S., which reduces danger for lenders and traders. 

Fannie and Freddie buy mortgages from lenders and both maintain them inside their portfolios or bundle these loans into mortgage-backed securities (MBS) that may be offered to traders. The Nationwide Affiliation of Realtors famous that they help about 70% of the U.S. mortgage market by this course of.

The 2 entities had been created beneath congressional charters and operated as personal firms till the housing market deteriorated within the 2007-08 monetary disaster that threatened the solvency of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, prompting a federal bailout to the tune of $191 billion.

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Fannie and Freddie had been taken into conservatorships by the Federal Housing Finance Company in 2008 amid the monetary disaster to scale back losses, stabilize the corporations’ working buildings and finally finish the conservatorship by re-privatizing them.

The 2 government-sponsored enterprises have since returned to profitability. The Congressional Analysis Service famous that Fannie and Freddie paid dividends totaling greater than $301 billion to the Treasury as of July 2020.

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