Compared to banks, credit unions have done a better job atbouncing back from the lending slump brought on by the GreatRecession a few years ago.

According to analysis from data tracking firm SNL Financial, loans at credit unions have reached an all-timehigh. However, loans at banks and thrifts are still more than $200billion below a second-quarter 2008 peak, the financial dataanalysis firm said.

As of June 30, loans at credit unions have grown 72.52% to$621.27 billion from $360.12 billion a decade ago, SNL Financialsaid.

In the first part of the decade, credit unions also experiencedan upward trend in their loan-to-deposit ratio aided by a fasterpace of loan growth that occurred through the end of 2006,according to SNL Financial.

The scenario changed in 2007 and 2008 when the ratio took adive. Starting at the end of 2008, the loan-to-deposit ratiodropped by 15.67 percentage points to 67.42% as of June 30, 2013,the SNL analysis showed. Credit unions did see a bright spot duringthe first quarter of this year when the ratio experienced a155-basis point increase, the firm said.

The $595.5 million Progressive Credit Union in New York topped the list of havingthe highest quarter-over-quarter increase in its loan-to-depositratio among all credit unions with at least $250 million in assets,according to SNL Financial. Its ratio rose by 11.48% helped by a5.26% increase in loans against a 1.22% drop in deposits. At theend of the second quarter, business loans made up 97.13% of Progressive's total loans.

Rounding out SNL Financial's list of the top 15 credit unionswith the highest growth in loan-to deposit ratio in the secondquarter were:

• $287 million Fairfax Federal Credit Union, Fairfax, Va.
• $1.9 billion University of Iowa Community Credit Union, Iowa City, Iowa
• $323.3 million Town & Country Credit Union, Minot, N.D.
• $532.9 million Horizon Credit Union, Spokane, Wash.
• $607.1 million Leominster Credit Union, Leominster, Mass.
• $448.1 million First Community Credit Union, Jamestown, N.D.
• $444.2 million Sandia Area Federal Credit Union, Albuquerque,N.M.
• $1.1 billion HAPO Community Credit Union, Richland, Wash.
• $811.0 million 1stUnited Services Credit Union, Pleasanton, Calif.
• $1 billion Advancial Credit Union, Dallas
• $887.9 million Evansville Teachers Federal Credit Union,Evansville, Ind.
• $632.7 million Tulsa Federal Credit Union, Tulsa, Okla.
• $450.1 million People's Trust Federal Credit Union, Houston
• $718.1 million CoastHills Federal Credit Union, Lompoc,Calif.