Thanks to the government shutdown, the FHA backlog includes processing endorsements for home-equity conversion mortgages.

Shellpoint Partners downsized and restructured a jumbo MBS it initially planned to sell in September.

The Structured Finance Industry Group offered its take on the loan limit debate.

How do you spell servicing relief? It all depends on who you ask. Meanwhile, First Guaranty Mortgage is entering the warehouse arena.

“The exodus of a majority of the pre-crisis nonbank entities within the mortgage arena provides an opportunity for banks to re-establish their position within the mortgage market,” according to regulators in Connecticut.

Clayton noted 907 compliance findings from its review. However, Fitch said the findings were deemed to be out of scope and waived by Fannie due to the limited scope of its post-close review for compliance.

KBRA pointed out that one jumbo MBS issuer said it will accept mortgages where lenders have implemented procedures to either close the loans with an exception or review IRS transcripts post-closing.

Laurie Goodman, director of the Urban Institute’s housing finance policy center, predicted that the delay in issuance of jumbo MBS will be short.

While standardization was the focus of jumbo investors, perhaps the bigger concern for participants is that most investors said they were looking to buy almost anything other than new jumbo MBS.

Peters Sack of Credit Suisse said the bank portfolio bid is currently much stronger than the economics for issuing jumbo MBS.