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Home Capital Group says new mortgage rules have clients migrating from big banks
– canadianbusiness.com
TORONTO _ Home Capital Group Inc. believes early results from this year suggest that mortgage business may be migrating to the alternative lender after the federal banking regulator introduced tougher rules for uninsured mortgages at the beginning of the year _ even though it too is required to abide by the requirements.
Preliminary indicators also suggest the credit quality of Home Capital mortgage originations is improving after the new rules were introduced Jan. 1, though it’s difficult to precisely quantify the impact, chief executive Yousry Bissada said on a conference call Thursday to discuss its fourth-quarter earnings.
“We have observed that some of our customers have been impacted by the stress test, and have therefore qualified for smaller loans than they would have last year.”
The rules for federally regulated lenders introduce a stress test for borrowers with a more than 20 per cent down payment to prove that they can service mortgage at a qualifying rate of the greater of the contractual mortgage rate plus two percentage point or the five-year benchmark rate published by the Bank of Canada…
Preliminary indicators also suggest the credit quality of Home Capital mortgage originations is improving after the new rules were introduced Jan. 1, though it’s difficult to precisely quantify the impact, chief executive Yousry Bissada said on a conference call Thursday to discuss its fourth-quarter earnings.
“We have observed that some of our customers have been impacted by the stress test, and have therefore qualified for smaller loans than they would have last year.”
The rules for federally regulated lenders introduce a stress test for borrowers with a more than 20 per cent down payment to prove that they can service mortgage at a qualifying rate of the greater of the contractual mortgage rate plus two percentage point or the five-year benchmark rate published by the Bank of Canada…
