---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-020402"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MFA"
cik: "0001055160"
company_name: "MFA FINANCIAL, INC."
filed_at: "2025-03-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T12:35:52.046823+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# MFA Financial elects Christopher Small to Board, filling vacancy

## Summary
- Christopher Small elected to board effective March 4, 2025, filling vacancy from passing of Francis J. Oelerich III.
- Small appointed to Audit Committee and Compensation Committee.
- Small is CEO of Black Owl Managing LLC; formerly Wells Fargo Managing Director covering mortgage finance.
- Board composition change only; no executive officer changes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-020402
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MFA
- cik: 0001055160
- company_name: MFA FINANCIAL, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-03-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1055160/000110465925020402/0001104659-25-020402-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1055160/000110465925020402/tm258111d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-020402
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-020402.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-020402.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Christopher Small was elected as Director at MFA FINANCIAL, INC..
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On March 4, 2025, MFA Financial, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that its Board of Directors (the “Board”) has elected Christopher Small as a director of the Company effective as of such date.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1055160/000110465925020402/0001104659-25-020402-index.htm

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