There were approximately 4,000 of these companies in the United States in 1996 (out of about 12,000 total organizations making mortgage loans)

what is lending business?

There is no statutory lending ratio.

As with many international organizations that lend money, the IMF has its detractors. One of the major complaints against it is that its restrictions and conditions for lending funds to "bail out " countries are too restrictive.

Lending Club was created in 2007.