There was no evidence that these brokers had falsified credit scores or property values, Home Capital said on Wednesday, adding that it had released the information after a request from the Ontario Securities Commission.

The company, which operates through its unit Home Trust Co, said it conducted an independent investigation after an external source alerted its board last year to possible discrepancies in income verification information submitted by certain brokers.

Home Capital suspended the contracts between September and March. That led to a decline in mortgage originations, but was unlikely to lead to credit losses, Home Capital said.

The company, which works with nearly 4,000 brokers, said it did a broader test to ensure that the issue was not widespread in its portfolio and "is comfortable that it is not".

The 45 brokers originated C$960.4 million ($742 million) of single-family residential mortgages in 2014, or 5.3 percent of the outstanding loan assets on Home Capital's balance sheet.

That could be expected to contribute about C$6 million to net income over a full year, or about 2 percent of 2014's net income of C$313 million, the company said.

The suspended contracts and subsequent fall in mortgage originations resulted in Home Capital's net profit slipping 2 percent to C$72.3 million, or C$1.03 per share, in the second quarter ended June 30.

The profit, however, was in line with analysts' average estimate, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

Home Capital's stock had fallen more than 43 percent in the last 12 months through Wednesday's close of C28.40.

(Reporting by Anannya Pramanick in Bengaluru and John Tilak in Toronto; Editing by Savio D'Souza)