Savings banks, banks, banking institutions, trust companies, personal finance companies, mortgage companies, installment lending companies, and other such financial institutions organized under any general or special law of this state which are approved by the federal housing administrator as eligible for credit insurance, are authorized to make loans and advances of credit and purchase obligations representing loans and advances of credit as are eligible for insurance by the federal housing administrator and to obtain such insurance.
N.J.S. § 17:2-5