---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-22-000201"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MFA"
cik: "0001055160"
company_name: "MFA FINANCIAL, INC."
filed_at: "2022-01-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T21:15:03.401317+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# MFA appoints Michael Roper as Chief Accounting Officer; Yarad stays CFO

## Summary
- Michael Roper appointed Chief Accounting Officer effective December 31, 2021.
- Roper previously served as a Senior Vice President of MFA Financial.
- Stephen D. Yarad remains Chief Financial Officer; Yarad had been serving dual role.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-22-000201
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MFA
- cik: 0001055160
- company_name: MFA FINANCIAL, INC.
- filed_at: 2022-01-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1055160/000110465922000201/0001104659-22-000201-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1055160/000110465922000201/tm2136667d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-000201.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Michael Roper was appointed as Chief Accounting Officer at MFA FINANCIAL, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: Effective December 31, 2021, Michael Roper, a Senior Vice President of MFA Financial, Inc. (the “Company”), was also appointed Chief Accounting Officer of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1055160/000110465922000201/0001104659-22-000201-index.htm

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