One year after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s standards for qualified mortgages took effect, lenders remain cautious about originating non-QMs. “Even though DBRS has seen a few lenders implementing non-QM programs that allow for back-end debt-to-income ratios as high as 50 percent and FICO scores as low as 600, DBRS expects that larger lenders, who are still recovering from the massive fines they had to pay for making subprime loans, will ...