Fannie and Freddie: CDS
IF Fannie and Freddie are placed into a conservatorship, the party line is that CDS would be triggered.
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The Bloomberg piece below explains the case when the CDS wouldn’t not be triggered:
Fannie, Freddie Debt Deferral May Not Trigger Swaps