Mortgage lending information comes from the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council's (FFIEC) Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data. Loan originations are the creation of a loan after bank approval. Loan origination rates are calculated from the number of loan applications that were either approved or denied—what is termed as decisioned applications. For all charts, the loan’s purpose can be selected via a dropdown list. Trends are summarized by all loan purposes and by Loans for home purchase, home improvement, or refinancing.