The mortgage industry has been anxiously waiting to see the new RESPA-TILA disclosure rule.

When in doubt, use the whole loan market. Shellpoint Partners is giving up, for now, trying to issue a jumbo MBS.

Through September $2.1 billion in originations by First Republic were included in jumbo MBS this year. The loans accounted for 17 percent of all non-agency jumbos securitized, according to exclusive figures compiled by Inside Nonconforming Markets.

Meanwhile, sources told Inside Mortgage Finance that the FHFA is looking to extract several billion dollars from Bank of America to settle claims that its Countrywide Financial division sold the GSEs toxic MBS.

One mortgage recruiter noted that job losses in somewhat rural communities can be a big problem for workers. “Sometimes they’re the largest employer in town and there’s nowhere else to go,” he said.

Previously, speculation has ranged from January 1 to June 30. Mortgage bankers told Inside Mortgage Finance that whatever the FHFA decides on an implementation date, it had better do so soon.

Lenders continue to originate non-agency jumbo mortgages, but few are likely to be securitized in the coming months due to more favorable economics for banks retaining the loans in portfolio. Longer term, many investors suggest they won’t return to the non-agency mortgage-backed security market until issuers standardize their offerings. The ABS East conference sponsored by Information Management Network last week in Miami presented a tale of two markets: jumbo MBS and everything else ...

The jumbo mortgage-backed security market showed some signs of life this week as Shellpoint Partners offered its second deal of the year, a restructured and downsized version of the transaction targeted for late September. The $250.85 million deal is set to receive a triple-A rating with credit enhancement of 7.10 percent on the top-rated tranche, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency. The $308.64 million deal Shellpoint was preparing in September was set to have credit enhancement of 7.90 percent ...

First Republic Bank was the top contributor to jumbo mortgage-backed securities through the first three quarters in 2013, according to a new ranking and analysis by Inside Nonconforming Markets. Meanwhile, underwriting trends for the sector were mixed. Some $2.10 billion in originations by First Republic were included in jumbo MBS this year, as of the end of September. The loans accounted for 17.2 percent of all non-agency jumbos securitized, more than double the next closest lender ... [Includes two data charts]

Opposition to lower loan limits for the government-sponsored enterprises appears to be increasing by the day as the Federal Housing Finance Agency considers the issue. Support from non-agency participants for a reduction – at least in the high-cost loan limits – has been proportional to the non-agency share of total mortgage originations: about one in 10. “My sense is that there will never be a good time to reduce the conforming loan limit,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics ...