Thanks to a booming mortgage market and increased interest among lenders, the Federal Home Loan Banks’ Mortgage Partnership Finance program is on a major roll in 2002. According to the latest numbers released by the Chicago FHLBank, which pioneered the program, MPF posted its best quarter ever during the third quarter of this year with $6.1 billion in new fundings. This represented a 19.6 percent increase over the already strong second quarter’s volume and