Gateway First Bank is a purchase lender with far more government-backed loans than similar banks, and its 7,952 loans in 2025 were about a fifth of its 2020 total.
Government loans well above peers
Similar lenders are state non-member banks making between half and twice as many loans. FHA loans (insured by the Federal Housing Administration) were 22.7% of its loans against 6.0%, and VA loans (guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs) 9.4% against 3.6%, each higher than about four in five similar lenders. RHS loans (guaranteed by the Department of Agriculture's Rural Housing Service) were 1.5%. Purchases made up 82.8% of its lending.
Shrinking while peers grew
Originations fell 5%, while similar lenders' rose 4% and the market's 10%, growth lower than about seven in ten of them. The 39,597 of 2020 have shrunk every year since. If the market's growth came mainly from refinancing, a purchase-heavy book would gain less, which could explain part of the gap. It also bought 1,744 loans, up from 1,314, where the typical similar lender bought 13.
Gaining in Oklahoma and Kansas, losing in Houston
Its share rose in Wichita to 3.0% from 2.0%, Oklahoma City to 2.0% from 1.8% and Tulsa to 1.6% from 1.4%, but fell in Houston to 0.3% from 0.5%, which may reflect where it chose to focus.
Denials below peers
It turned down 3.7% of the first-lien home-purchase applications it decided, against 6.8% for similar lenders, lower than about four in five of them, and 13.3% of refinance applications, against 15.5%. Buyers who come to it already preapproved could explain this.
Questions the data can answer next
How do its FHA rates compare with other FHA lenders' in Oklahoma and Texas?
Similar lenders: same lender type, originations between half and twice the lender's in the data year.
Written from the 2025 HMDA data and checked figure by figure against it.
FIG. 1 — LOANS ORIGINATED, 2018–2025
7,952 loans in 2025, against a peak of 39,597 in 2020.
Originated means the loan was made: applications denied, withdrawn or not accepted are not counted. Gateway First Bank took 11,008 applications in 2025.
82.8% of its 2025 loans were purchase loans; 66.4% were Conventional.
Purchase 82.8% · Refinance 14.9% · Other 2.0% · Home improvement 0.4% Conventional 66.4% · FHA 22.7% · VA 9.4% · USDA (RHS or FSA) 1.5% · of 7,952 loans. Purchase: buying a home. Refinance: replacing an existing mortgage, including cash-out. FHA: insured by the Federal Housing Administration. VA: guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Conventional: neither.
SOURCE: FFIEC HMDA 2025, LOANS ORIGINATED
Where it lends, 2025
41 states, 199 metros, 668 counties
State
Loans
Share
Texas
2,178
27.4%
Oklahoma
1,547
19.5%
South Carolina
653
8.2%
Kansas
533
6.7%
Arkansas
350
4.4%
New Jersey
337
4.2%
West Virginia
337
4.2%
Missouri
254
3.2%
Florida
223
2.8%
New Mexico
216
2.7%
Largest metro areas, 2025
Loans originated
Metro area
Loans
Oklahoma City
637
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands
534
Wichita
394
Dallas-Plano-Irving
351
Tulsa
350
San Antonio-New Braunfels
318
Fort Worth-Arlington-Grapevine
307
Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers
254
Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal
204
Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach
200
Identifiers
LEI (Legal Entity Identifier, the global company code HMDA has used since 2018)
54930034MNPILHP25H80
2018–2025
RSSD (the Federal Reserve's identifier for banks and their parents)
3851427
2010–2023
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
7731577221
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
71578300007
2003–2010
Established 2 March 1935. Reported under HMDA 2003-2025.
Gateway First Bank and its peers, 2018–2025: every application in the HMDA data, cleaned and corrected, as Parquet files, with the Jenner programs that made these pages.
Every mortgage application reported under HMDA from 1990 to 2025, cleaned and corrected, every lender followed across name changes and mergers, with the market-share and fair-lending tables behind these pages and the Jenner programs that built them: the warehouse and the datamart, as Parquet files.
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