Growing against the grain
Its loans rose 14% to 48. Similar lenders, savings institutions making between half and twice as many loans in 2025, were flat, and the whole market grew 10%; its growth was higher than at about three in five of them. The gain is small beside its own past. It made 152 loans in 2020 and 172 in 2021, and between 42 and 64 a year since 2022.