Farmers Bank & Trust is a Kansas bank that lends far beyond its home state, in 47 states, with larger typical loans than nearly all its peers, and its originations fell 14% to 1,100.
A national lender from Great Bend
Its loans reached 205 metros and 414 counties. Its largest market was Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, where it ranked 138 of 597 lenders; in Kansas City it ranked 77 of 659, with its share unchanged at 0.3%. Its typical loan was $455,000, against $195,000 at similar lenders (state non-member banks making between half and twice as many loans), higher than nearly all of them.
Volume swings from year to year
Originations fell 14% from 1,284, while similar lenders grew 10%. Its record moves sharply: 157 loans in 2018, 3,052 in 2021, 421 in 2022 and 1,077 in 2023. Refinances, which rise and fall with rates, were 51.3% of its lending, which may explain the swings.
More VA lending than most peers
VA loans (guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs) were 6.7% of its originations, against 0.5% at similar lenders, up from 3.6% the year before and higher than about nine in ten peers. Its typical rate, 6.25%, was lower than more than four in five peers (6.75%), and its refinance denial rate, 9.2%, was lower than peers' 15.4%.
Few LMI borrowers
LMI (low- and moderate-income) borrowers took 7.1% of its loans, against 27.3% at similar lenders, among the lowest tenth; LMI areas took 8.2%, against 14.9%. One possible reason is its loan size: its typical loan was more than double peers'.
Questions the data can answer next
Which metros account for its loans outside Kansas, and how has that spread changed since 2021?
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
1,100 loans in 2025, against a peak of 3,052 in 2021.
Originated means the loan was made: applications denied, withdrawn or not accepted are not counted. Farmers Bank & Trust took 2,569 applications in 2025.
51.3% of its 2025 loans were refinance loans; 92.6% were Conventional.
Refinance 51.3% · Purchase 45.5% · Other 2.9% · Home improvement 0.3% Conventional 92.6% · VA 6.7% · USDA (RHS or FSA) 0.6% · of 1,100 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
47 states, 205 metros, 414 counties
State
Loans
Share
Kansas
151
13.7%
California
88
8.0%
Washington
78
7.1%
Missouri
67
6.1%
Texas
55
5.0%
Florida
49
4.5%
North Carolina
47
4.3%
Colorado
45
4.1%
New York
40
3.6%
Illinois
33
3.0%
Largest metro areas, 2025
Loans originated
Metro area
Loans
Kansas City
100
Seattle-Bellevue-Kent
41
Arlington-Alexandria-Reston
24
Denver-Aurora-Centennial
24
Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler
22
St. Louis
22
Chicago-Naperville-Schaumburg
21
New York-Jersey City-White Plains
20
Everett
19
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands
17
Identifiers
LEI (Legal Entity Identifier, the global company code HMDA has used since 2018)
549300LLESTPOVRG3X73
2018–2025
RSSD (the Federal Reserve's identifier for banks and their parents)
482156
2004–2023
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
117464
2003–2012
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
317614
2013–2017
Established 1 August 1907. Reported under HMDA 2003-2025.
Farmers Bank & 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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