The company is called "Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation". The abbreviation is FHLMC, which should, but does not, sound like "Freddie Mac" See also Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA)= Fannie Mae.

Maxine B. Baker is the president of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation which is also referred to as Freddie Mac. She is also the CEO of the company.

Popular spelling "say as you hear" Fannie Mae = Federal National Mortgage Association - FNMA Freddie Mac - Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp - FHLMC

Some mortgage loan companies based in the United States are as follows: the Federal National Mortgage Association (known as Fannie Mae), Government National Mortgage Association (known as Ginnie Mae), and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (known as Freddie Mac).

The main difference between Fannie Mae (FNMA; Federal National Mortgage Association) and Freddie Mac (FHLMC; Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation) is that Fannie May primarily buys mortgages issued by banks and Freddie Mac primarily buys mortgages issued by thrifts.

A secondary difference between the two is that Fannie Mae started in 1938 as part of the "New Deal" and Freddie Mac started in 1970 in order to create competition in the secondary mortgage market.