Stifel Bank and Trust makes large loans nationwide from a St. Louis base, where it ranks fourth, and its originations rose 18% in 2025 while similar banks barely grew.
Larger loans than similar banks
Similar lenders are state member banks making between half and twice as many loans. Its typical loan was $375,000 against $205,000, higher than more than nine in ten of them, and 15.2% of loans were jumbo (larger than the conforming limit) against 4.8%. It lent in 51 states.
Growth and a steady hold on St. Louis
Originations rose 18% against 1% for similar banks and 10% for the whole market. In St. Louis it ranked 4 of 637, with 3.3% of the market against 3.2% a year before.
Few LMI borrowers alongside larger loans
LMI (low- and moderate-income) borrowers took 12.7% of its loans against 25.8%, and LMI areas 9.4% against 15.9%, both lower than more than nine in ten similar banks. Its larger, often jumbo loans may draw higher-income borrowers.
Low prices and few denials
Almost none of its loans were higher-priced (a rate well above the average for similar loans): 0.0% against 1.8%. Its typical rate of 6.12% was lower than more than nine in ten similar banks' 6.66%. It turned down 1.0% of first-lien home-purchase and 1.9% of refinance applications on owner-occupied homes, against 9.2% and 19.0%, the lowest among similar banks. Borrowers taking larger loans, and few FHA loans (insured by the Federal Housing Administration), may account for both.
Questions the data can answer next
How do its loan sizes and rates compare with similar banks' in Los Angeles, New York and Miami, where it ranks outside the top 100?
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
4,497 loans in 2025, against a peak of 10,620 in 2020.
Originated means the loan was made: applications denied, withdrawn or not accepted are not counted. Stifel Bank and Trust took 5,127 applications in 2025.
62.9% of its 2025 loans were purchase loans; 96.9% were Conventional.
Purchase 62.9% · Other 18.5% · Refinance 18.2% · Home improvement 0.4% Conventional 96.9% · FHA 1.9% · VA 1.2% · of 4,497 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
51 states, 292 metros, 785 counties
State
Loans
Share
Missouri
1,522
33.8%
California
364
8.1%
Florida
265
5.9%
Illinois
150
3.3%
Texas
142
3.2%
New York
138
3.1%
North Carolina
122
2.7%
New Jersey
119
2.6%
Georgia
115
2.6%
Colorado
104
2.3%
Largest metro areas, 2025
Loans originated
Metro area
Loans
St. Louis
1,492
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale
95
New York-Jersey City-White Plains
70
Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler
69
Chicago-Naperville-Schaumburg
58
Denver-Aurora-Centennial
56
Dallas-Plano-Irving
54
Nassau County-Suffolk County
48
Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin
42
Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood
41
Identifiers
LEI (Legal Entity Identifier, the global company code HMDA has used since 2018)
CKVBED0S4DMLKJJ5XH28
2018–2025
RSSD (the Federal Reserve's identifier for banks and their parents)
3076248
2004–2023
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
357311
2003–2013
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
23076248
2014–2016
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
93076248
2017–2017
Established 16 April 2002. Reported under HMDA 2003-2025.
Stifel Bank and Trust 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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