FCB Banks is an Illinois bank focused on home purchases, ranked 9 of 637 lenders in St. Louis, with more of its loans to LMI borrowers than most similar lenders.
A home-purchase lender with smaller loans
Home purchases made up 58.3% of its loans, refinances 18.3%, home improvement 15.3% and other purposes 8.1%. Its typical loan was $155,000, against $205,000 at similar lenders (state non-member banks making between half and twice as many loans), smaller than about three in four of them. FHA (insured by the Federal Housing Administration) loans were 3.7% and VA (guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs) 2.0%, against 2.7% and 0.9% at peers.
More lending to LMI borrowers than most peers
LMI (low- and moderate-income) borrowers took 34.0% of its loans, against 27.7% at similar lenders, higher than about three in four of them. Its share in LMI areas, 17.9%, was higher than peers' 15.7% and up from 12.2% five years before.
Few higher-priced loans
Only 0.1% of its loans were higher-priced (a rate well above the average for similar loans), against 1.5% at peers, among the lowest tenth. Its refinance denial rate, 15.3%, was lower than peers' 19.0%.
Growing with the market, holding St. Louis
Originations rose 10% to 1,716, in line with the whole market's 10% and near similar lenders' 12%. In St. Louis, where it has lent since before 1990, its share was little changed at 2.3%, against 2.4% the year before. In Kansas City its share rose 0.3 points to 0.3%.
Questions the data can answer next
Which St. Louis counties hold its LMI lending, and how do its share trends there compare with Guild Mortgage Company's and Stifel Bank and Trust's?
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
1,716 loans in 2025, against a peak of 2,892 in 2021.
Originated means the loan was made: applications denied, withdrawn or not accepted are not counted. FCB Banks took 2,168 applications in 2025.
58.3% of its 2025 loans were purchase loans; 93.4% were Conventional.
Purchase 58.3% · Refinance 18.3% · Home improvement 15.3% · Other 8.1% Conventional 93.4% · FHA 3.7% · VA 2.0% · USDA (RHS or FSA) 0.9% · of 1,716 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
14 states, 27 metros, 67 counties
State
Loans
Share
Illinois
1,287
75.0%
Missouri
400
23.3%
Florida
11
0.6%
Indiana
3
0.2%
Arkansas
2
0.1%
Georgia
2
0.1%
North Carolina
2
0.1%
Tennessee
2
0.1%
West Virginia
2
0.1%
Alabama
1
0.1%
Largest metro areas, 2025
Loans originated
Metro area
Loans
St. Louis
1,614
Kansas City
7
Panama City-Panama City Beach
4
Cape Coral-Fort Myers
3
Chicago-Naperville-Schaumburg
3
Hagerstown-Martinsburg
2
Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin
2
Peoria
2
Asheville
1
Brunswick-St. Simons
1
Identifiers
LEI (Legal Entity Identifier, the global company code HMDA has used since 2018)
549300L8JRY60EOROT34
2018–2025
RSSD (the Federal Reserve's identifier for banks and their parents)
1459717
2004–2023
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
333005
1991–2017
Established 9 July 1990. Reported under HMDA 1991-2025.
Mergers, name changes, data editions and corrections: FCB Banks's data.
The data and the software behind these pages
FCB Banks's data
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FCB Banks 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.
Jenner runs programs written in the SAS language. It drew every chart on these pages and fitted the fair-lending model, PROC GLIMMIX on 3.5 million applications. Run the programs that come with the data, or your own.