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Amboy Bank review: approval odds, rates and grade (2025)

Amboy Bank earns an A, placing it in the top fifth of home-equity (HELOC) lenders. It turned down 16.6% of the applications it decided on in 2025, which ranks in the 77th percentile for approval odds. Compared against 412 home-equity (HELOC) lenders using 2025 HMDA filings.

417Applications2025
75.8%Originatedof applications
16.6%Decision denial ratenational 22.6%
Median ratenational 6.63%
$83MLoan volume1 states

Amboy Bank at a glance, 2025

Every figure is from the lender's own HMDA filing. "vs national" compares with all lenders combined.

15.6%Denial rate (all applications)-2.39 pts vs national
16.6%Denial rate (decided applications)-5.97 pts vs national
75.8%Origination rate+17.75 pts vs national
6.2%Withdrawn by applicant
0.0%Closed for incompleteness
Median interest rate
Median rate spread (pts over APOR)
$105,000Median loan amount
Median total loan costs
$109kMedian applicant income
Median loan-to-value
1High-cost (HOEPA) loans

How the A grade breaks down

Each component is a percentile rank among 412 home-equity (HELOC) lenders. Higher is better. Components the lender does not report are left out and the weights redistributed.

Approval oddsdecision denial rate, weight 45%

77th16.6% denied

Processwithdrawn + incomplete share, weight 15%

84th6.2%

Trend, 2023–2025

YearApplicationsOriginatedDenial rateDecision denialMedian rateVolume
202340029815.5%15.9%$150M
202442330017.3%18.6%$40M
202541731615.6%16.6%$83M

What Amboy Bank lends

Applications by purpose and loan type in 2025, with the denial rate for each. A lender's mix explains a lot of its headline rate: HELOCs and FHA loans are denied far more often than conventional purchase loans.

By loan purpose

Home purchase 31 7% · 3.2% denied
Refinance 133 32% · 15.8% denied
Home improvement 47 11% · 17.0% denied
Other / HELOC 206 49% · 17.0% denied

By loan type

Conventional 417 100% · 15.6% denied

Also: 338 home-equity lines, 67 reverse mortgages, 0 manufactured homes, 11 investment properties.

Who gets approved at Amboy Bank

Decision denial rate by applicant profile. Groups with fewer than 20 applications are omitted.

Applicant incomeApplicationsOriginatedDecision denial rate
Under $50k574118.2%
$50k – $100k1239122.0%
$100k – $150k997018.7%
$150k – $250k907211.0%
Over $250k32286.7%
Applicant ageApplicationsOriginatedDecision denial rate
35–4437328.3%
45–54524115.7%
55–64896318.8%
65–741117625.0%
Over 741018112.5%

Where Amboy Bank lends

1 states and 15 counties in 2025. Click a state for the lender's full record there.

StateApplicationsOriginatedDenial rateMedian rateRank in state
New Jersey41731615.6%#136

Frequently asked questions

Amboy Bank denied 16.6% of the applications it decided on in 2025. The national figure across all lenders was 22.6%. On approval odds it ranks in the 77th percentile of home-equity (HELOC) lenders.

In 2025, 7% of its applications were for home purchases, 32% for refinancing (including cash-out), and 61% for home improvement or other purposes. By loan type: 100% conventional, 0% FHA, 0% VA.

Every figure on this page comes from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) Loan/Application Register published by the CFPB, which lenders are required by federal law to file. We add the grade and the comparisons; we do not add facts.

About this data. HMDA data is published once a year by the CFPB. The current release covers applications acted on in calendar year 2025. Figures describe applications the lender acted on, including loans it later sold. Interest rates and costs are medians on originated loans only; some depository institutions are exempt from reporting pricing fields, which is why a few cells read "—". MortgageGrades is not affiliated with Amboy Bank. Data sources · Methodology