WesBanco Bank grew 41% in 2025, faster than about nine in ten similar lenders, in a year in which it merged with Premier Bank.
Growth well ahead of peers
Originations rose to 6,248 from 4,430, a rise of 41%, against 13% for similar lenders (state non-member banks making between half and twice as many loans) and 10% for the whole market. Its 2025 merger with Premier Bank, whose filings count as its own in the competition figures, may explain part of the rise.
Small loans at low prices
Its typical loan was $155,000 against $250,000, smaller than about four in five peers, and 25.4% of its loans were for home improvement. Its middle rate was 6.25% against 6.62%, and 0.4% of its loans were higher-priced (a rate well above the average for similar loans), against 2.2%; both were lower than more than eight in ten peers.
Fewer loans in LMI and majority-minority areas
It ranks 9 of 592 lenders in non-metro Ohio. Its shares in LMI (low- and moderate-income) areas, 12.1%, and majority-minority areas, 5.1%, were lower than at most similar lenders, against 17.2% and 15.3%, while its 29.5% to LMI borrowers was near the middle. Markets with fewer such areas may explain the gap.
Mixed in its largest metros
Its share rose in Pittsburgh, to 1.3% from 1.0%, and fell in Columbus, to 1.3% from 1.8%, where it has lent since before 1990. The fall could reflect stronger competition or a shift of effort to newer markets.
Questions the data can answer next
Which counties did the Premier Bank merger add, and how does its share there compare with competitors'?
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
6,248 loans in 2025, against a peak of 7,678 in 2020.
Originated means the loan was made: applications denied, withdrawn or not accepted are not counted. WesBanco Bank took 9,375 applications in 2025.
39.3% of its 2025 loans were purchase loans; 92.3% were Conventional.
Purchase 39.3% · Home improvement 25.4% · Other 18.4% · Refinance 16.9% Conventional 92.3% · FHA 5.8% · VA 1.1% · USDA (RHS or FSA) 0.7% · of 6,248 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
27 states, 87 metros, 328 counties
State
Loans
Share
Ohio
3,020
48.3%
West Virginia
956
15.3%
Pennsylvania
657
10.5%
Kentucky
645
10.3%
Maryland
400
6.4%
Indiana
241
3.9%
Michigan
120
1.9%
Virginia
105
1.7%
Florida
30
0.5%
Tennessee
22
0.4%
Largest metro areas, 2025
Loans originated
Metro area
Loans
Pittsburgh
629
Columbus
447
Cincinnati
376
Youngstown-Warren
335
Wheeling
312
Louisville/Jefferson County
254
Toledo
248
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson
171
Lexington-Fayette
169
Cleveland
143
Identifiers
LEI (Legal Entity Identifier, the global company code HMDA has used since 2018)
QGPGHQ1ENZOOLJRFTH41
2018–2025
RSSD (the Federal Reserve's identifier for banks and their parents)
645625
2004–2023
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
2645625
1990–2007
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
3803
2008–2017
Established 20 January 1870. Reported under HMDA 1990-2025.
WesBanco 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.
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