Credit unions, however, continued to grow their holdings of home-equity loans, up 1.9% to $92.5 billion as of the end of the third quarter. New HEL originations edged up 0.7% from the previous period to $9.7 billion.
Rick Sharga, president and CEO of consulting firm CJ Patrick Co., likened LO signings to the current Major League Baseball winter meetings being held in San Diego “where general managers bid against each other for free agents.”