MFA Financial, Inc. Announces Quarterly Dividend of $0.20 Per Share

NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- MFA Financial, Inc. (NYSE:  MFA) announced today that its Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.20 per share of common stock for the third quarter of 2014.  The dividend will be paid on October 31, 2014, to stockholders of record on September 29, 2014.

MFA is a real estate investment trust primarily engaged in the business of investing, on a leveraged basis, in residential mortgage assets, including residential mortgage-backed securities and residential whole loans.

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