Back to its old pace
It made 120 loans, against 61 a year earlier, a rise of 97%. Similar lenders (national banks making between half and twice as many loans) grew 3%, and almost none grew faster. The rise takes it back to its level of 2020 to 2022, when it made between 103 and 123 loans a year, after 61 in both 2023 and 2024.