Verve, a Credit Union, is a Wisconsin credit union whose lending leans to home-improvement and other-purpose loans; it ranks second in Oshkosh-Neenah, and its originations rose 10% to 744 in 2025.
Second in Oshkosh-Neenah, rising in Fond du Lac
It ranked 2 of 231 lenders in Oshkosh-Neenah, where it has lent since before 1990, behind Community First Credit Union; its share fell 1.8 points to 4.8%. Possible reasons are faster growth by competitors there, or a shift of its lending toward Fond du Lac, where it ranked 3 of 199 and its share rose 2.4 points to 5.1%.
Home improvement leads its mix
Home improvement was 34.9% of its originations, purchase 23.9%, other purposes 23.8% and refinance 17.3%. Its typical loan, $105,000, matched similar lenders' (credit unions making between half and twice as many loans), and 99.9% of its loans were conventional.
Growth near its peers, below 2021
Originations rose 10%, against 7% at similar lenders and 10% for the whole market. It made 1,463 loans in 2021 and 557 in 2023. Its dollar volume, $175.3 million, was higher than at about three-quarters of peers.
More low- and moderate-income borrowers, lower rates
LMI (low- and moderate-income) borrowers took 31.1% of its loans, against 27.6% at peers, higher than about two-thirds of them; LMI areas took 15.1%, near the middle. Its typical rate, 6.50%, was lower than at about three-quarters of peers, against 7.00%.
Questions the data can answer next
Which lenders took share in Oshkosh-Neenah in 2025, and in which tracts?
Similar lenders: same lender type, originations between half and twice the lender's in the data year.
Written from the 2025 HMDA data and checked figure by figure against it.
FIG. 1 — LOANS ORIGINATED, 2018–2025
744 loans in 2025, against a peak of 1,463 in 2021.
Originated means the loan was made: applications denied, withdrawn or not accepted are not counted. Verve, a Credit Union took 1,024 applications in 2025.
34.9% of its 2025 loans were home improvement loans; 99.9% were Conventional.
Home improvement 34.9% · Purchase 23.9% · Other 23.8% · Refinance 17.3% Conventional 99.9% · FHA 0.1% · of 744 loans. Purchase: buying a home. Refinance: replacing an existing mortgage, including cash-out. FHA: insured by the Federal Housing Administration. VA: guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Conventional: neither.
SOURCE: FFIEC HMDA 2025, LOANS ORIGINATED
Where it lends, 2025
4 states, 12 metros, 42 counties
State
Loans
Share
Wisconsin
695
93.4%
Illinois
44
5.9%
Minnesota
4
0.5%
Michigan
1
0.1%
Largest metro areas, 2025
Loans originated
Metro area
Loans
Oshkosh-Neenah
301
Fond du Lac
156
Appleton
89
La Crosse-Onalaska
47
Chicago-Naperville-Schaumburg
42
Milwaukee-Waukesha
21
Green Bay
16
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington
3
Madison
1
Rockford
1
Identifiers
LEI (Legal Entity Identifier, the global company code HMDA has used since 2018)
549300P6ZERWX5BPWX45
2018–2025
RSSD (the Federal Reserve's identifier for banks and their parents)
607799
2004–2023
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
566777
1990–2017
Established 1 January 1938. Reported under HMDA 1990-2025.
Verve, a Credit Union and its peers, 2018–2025: every application in the HMDA data, cleaned and corrected, as Parquet files, with the Jenner programs that made these pages.
Every mortgage application reported under HMDA from 1990 to 2025, cleaned and corrected, every lender followed across name changes and mergers, with the market-share and fair-lending tables behind these pages and the Jenner programs that built them: the warehouse and the datamart, as Parquet files.
Jenner runs programs written in the SAS language. It drew every chart on these pages and fitted the fair-lending model, PROC GLIMMIX on 3.5 million applications. Run the programs that come with the data, or your own.