Fewer loans, bigger ones
It made 118 loans, down 33%, while similar lenders (credit unions making between half and twice as many loans) grew 8%; few of them fell as far. Yet it lent $26.0 million, up from $18.5 million, as its typical loan jumped to $175,000 from $65,000. A change that large in one year may reflect a shift in the kinds of loan it makes; which small loans it stopped making is the open question.