Case Study: Freddie Mac achieves efficient, scalable mortgage data protection with Informatica

Freddie Mac Boosts Home Lending Efficiency as Demand for Mortgages Grows

Freddie Mac, the government‑sponsored enterprise that supports the U.S. housing market (Single‑Family business with more than 11 million active loans and a $2.9 trillion balance sheet), needed a more efficient way to find, manage, and protect personally identifiable information across a vast, distributed data estate. Manual PII scans were labor‑intensive and couldn’t easily scale as mortgage volumes surged during COVID‑19 and as the organization moved workloads to the cloud.

Freddie Mac deployed an Informatica platform approach—automating data quality controls, PII discovery with Data Privacy Management, and cloud‑ready connectors via Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services—to scan roughly 80 TB (and now about 72% of Single‑Family data), thousands of tables and columns, and over a trillion rows. The automation reduced exposure risk, boosted data confidence and team productivity, enabled compliance (e.g., CCPA), and let the organization meet spikes in mortgage processing with the same number of resources while continuing its AWS modernization.

Freddie Mac

Aravind Jag Jagannathan

Vice President and Chief Data Officer