Equity Bank is a Kansas and Missouri lender of small loans, split between refinance and purchase, whose originations grew 18% in 2025, faster than about four in five similar banks.
Growth, with mergers in the record
Originations rose 18% to 1,269, against 7% at similar lenders (state member banks making between half and twice as many loans) and 10% in the whole market. Its merger with NBC Oklahoma in 2025 may have contributed to that growth.
Small loans, little government lending now
Its typical loan was $105,000, smaller than at more than nine in ten peers, whose typical loan was $195,000. Refinances were 38.5% of its loans, purchases 36.3% and home improvement 18.2%. Five years before, loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) were 5.7% and loans guaranteed by the Department of Agriculture's Rural Housing Service (RHS) 7.9%; in 2025 they were 0.8% and 0.2%.
More lending in majority-minority areas
Majority-minority areas took 13.5% of its loans, against 6.6% at peers, higher than about three in four, though down from 19.0% a year before. Low- and moderate-income (LMI) borrowers took 31.9%, against 26.8%. Its purchase denial rate, 7.3%, matched peers'.
Spread across Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma
It ranked 25 of 367 lenders in Wichita, with 0.9% of lending, close to its 1.0% a year before, and 51 of 659 in Kansas City, where its share rose to 0.4% from 0.3%. It ranked 16 of 398 in non-metro Kansas and 43 of 538 in non-metro Oklahoma.
Questions the data can answer next
How did its lending in Oklahoma counties change after the NBC Oklahoma merger?
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
1,269 loans in 2025, against a peak of 1,393 in 2022.
Originated means the loan was made: applications denied, withdrawn or not accepted are not counted. Equity Bank took 1,755 applications in 2025.
38.5% of its 2025 loans were refinance loans; 98.9% were Conventional.
Refinance 38.5% · Purchase 36.3% · Home improvement 18.2% · Other 7.0% Conventional 98.9% · FHA 0.8% · USDA (RHS or FSA) 0.2% · VA 0.2% · of 1,269 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, 31 metros, 146 counties
State
Loans
Share
Missouri
411
32.4%
Kansas
409
32.2%
Oklahoma
249
19.6%
Arkansas
168
13.2%
Texas
13
1.0%
Colorado
7
0.6%
Florida
3
0.2%
Arizona
2
0.2%
New Mexico
2
0.2%
California
1
0.1%
Largest metro areas, 2025
Loans originated
Metro area
Loans
Kansas City
228
Wichita
107
Tulsa
50
Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers
43
Oklahoma City
36
Topeka
16
St. Joseph
15
Enid
8
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands
7
Denver-Aurora-Centennial
5
Identifiers
LEI (Legal Entity Identifier, the global company code HMDA has used since 2018)
549300TJF420N3F01V87
2018–2025
RSSD (the Federal Reserve's identifier for banks and their parents)
139656
2005–2023
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
118478
1990–2011
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
2139656
2012–2017
Established 21 January 1985. Reported under HMDA 1990-2025.
Mergers, name changes, data editions and corrections: Equity Bank's data.
The data and the software behind these pages
Equity Bank's data
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Equity 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.
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.