Wells Fargo Home Mortgage maintained its two-year lead over 49 other financial institutions in residential purchase lending to African Americans and Hispanics in 2002 after posting a 16 percent increase over 2001 minority volume. An Inside Mortgage Compliance analysis of 2002 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data also found a 29 percent increase in overall minority lending by the 50 top lenders in this category. Their share comprised 64.7 percent of the minority loan market