LaSalle Broker-Dealer Services Division To Offer FreddieNotes.

Business Editors

BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 2001

The LaSalle Broker-Dealer Services Division (LaSalle), a division of ABN AMRO Incorporated (AAI), is pleased to announce its selection as the purchasing agent for a series of new, unsecured senior notes to be issued from time to time by Freddie Mac called FreddieNotes(sm).

FreddieNotes are callable medium term notes that are offered to investors through an on-going series of weekly offerings. FreddieNotes, rated Aaa by Moody's and AAA by S&P, will be issued in minimum denominations of $1,000 and in a variety of callable structures.

To obtain the offering circular and offering circular supplement relating to the FreddieNotes, you may write to LaSalle BDSD at 327 Plaza Real, Suite 225, Boca Raton, Florida 33432, or call toll free at 877-373-0322 or visit the FreddieNotes program web site at www.freddienotes.com.

LaSalle Bank's Broker-Dealer Services Division is a leading educator and distributor of taxable fixed-income products and services to the broker-dealer community. LaSalle offers a complete fixed-income marketing program featuring videos, cassettes, brochures, computer presentations and additional marketing support designed to help traders and sales representatives market fixed-income securities.

LaSalle Bank is one of the Midwest's largest banks with $47 billion in assets. Individuals and businesses have the convenience of banking at over 120 locations and 450 ATMs as well as online at www.lasallebank.com. Subsidiaries include LaSalle Business Credit, Inc. and LaSalle National Leasing Corp. LaSalle is a subsidiary of Netherlands-based ABN AMRO Bank N.V., one of the world's largest banks with total assets of $511 billion and more than 3,500 locations in over 70 countries and territories.

In North America, ABN AMRO is headquartered in Chicago and has $171 billion in assets and more than 18,000 employees with offices serving wholesale clients in 13 cities in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. ABN AMRO's North American affiliates include LaSalle Bank in Chicago; ABN AMRO Asset Management (USA) LLC, a subsidiary of LaSalle Bank; Standard Federal Bank in Michigan and EAB in New York.

This announcement is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy securities. The offer is made only by offering circular and the related offering circular supplement.