11.   Officials attributed the jump to strong deposit business, increased loan volume, and cost savings from merging integration.

12.   That should help the government-sponsored agency more quickly create secondary markets to provide private agricultural lenders with greater liquidity and increase loan volume.

13.   The banks, which are involved in all financial areas, benefited from increased loan volume, investment-banking fees and brokerage commissions.

14.   The company said it expects to decrease loan volume while it makes the changes.

15.   The San Francisco-based bank has doubled its small-business loan volume in each of the past two years.

16.   When loan volume is down, mortgage loan employees make less money in commissions.

17.   While loan volume is still increasing, the pace of growth declined at many banks, analysts said.

18.   Bank loan volumes rose moderately during the month.

19.   But financial companies ended lower, most likely on concerns about loan volume and defaults in a slowing economy.

20.   Managing director Amirsham A. Aziz attributed the impressive results to improved operational efficiency, better interest margin and higher loan volume.