Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: The decision by one of the nation's largest banks to admit to $3 billi

Answer A isn't parallel, though it might look like it is. "Lending" here is a noun, while "increasing" is an adjective. The parallel things here are "lending" and "pressure", not "lending" and "increasing" -- paraphrasing, the bank's decision will lead to 'less lending and more pressure'. Here, "less" and "more" (or "less"
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