The Federal Home Loan Bank system’s Mortgage Partnership Finance program celebrated its fifth birthday this month by reporting it funded a record $9.6 billion in fixed-rate mortgages during the first half of 2002. That’s a hefty 50 percent increase over last year’s first half volume and even 14 percent ahead of 2000’s first half, a period when FHA mortgages accounted for the lion’s share of MPF’s fledgling business.