Small loans for other purposes
Loans for other purposes made up 70.5% of its book, refinances 28.4% and purchases just 1.1%. Its typical loan was $55,000, against $100,000 at similar lenders (credit unions making between half and twice as many loans), smaller than at nearly all of them. So its dollar volume, $6.7 million, was lower than at four in five peers despite a loan count near the middle.