---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-043277"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EFC"
cik: "0001411342"
company_name: "Ellington Financial Inc."
filed_at: "2025-10-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T05:04:09.192389+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ellington Financial prices $400M 7.375% senior notes due 2030

## Summary
- Offering of $400M aggregate principal amount of 7.375% senior unsecured notes due 2030.
- Expected to close on October 6, 2025, subject to customary closing conditions.
- Proceeds to repay a portion of outstanding repurchase agreements and fund asset purchases.
- Notes issued through subsidiaries, fully and unconditionally guaranteed by Ellington Financial.
- Offered to qualified institutional buyers under Rule 144A and non-U.S. persons under Reg S.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-043277
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EFC
- cik: 0001411342
- company_name: Ellington Financial Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-10-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1411342/000162828025043277/0001628280-25-043277-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1411342/000162828025043277/efc-20250930.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-25-043277.txt

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