The Fidelity Bank is a North Carolina state non-member bank whose 1,177 loans in 2025 were close to its 2024 count, while its share rose in Raleigh-Cary, Greensboro-High Point and Winston-Salem.
Flat volume while similar banks grew
Its originations rose 1%, against 10% for similar lenders (state non-member banks making between half and twice as many loans) and 10% for the whole market, slower than about three in four of them. Dollar volume rose to $343.6 million from $280.5 million, as the typical loan rose to $205,000 from $175,000 and jumbo loans (larger than the conforming limit) rose to 4.6% from 0.7%. Its count peaked at 1,863 in 2021.
Share rising in three home metros
Its share rose to 0.5% from 0.4% in Raleigh-Cary (48 of 638 lenders), and to 1.1% from 0.9% in both Greensboro-High Point (25 of 469) and Winston-Salem (22 of 465). It has lent in all three since before 1990. State Employees' Credit Union ranks first or second in each.
Fewer low- and moderate-income borrowers than peers
Low- and moderate-income (LMI) borrowers took 20.9% of its loans, against 27.3% at similar lenders, lower than about three in four. Its share in LMI areas, 15.5%, is near the middle, and its 11.8% in majority-minority areas higher than about two in three. Its rise in larger loans and the borrowers in the markets it serves are possible reasons for the lower LMI borrower share.
Lower denial rates
On first-lien owner-occupied applications it turned down 3.3% of home-purchase applications, against 5.9% at similar lenders, and 11.6% of refinance applications, against 15.5%.
Questions the data can answer next
Which counties drove its share gains in Raleigh-Cary, and which lenders gave up that share?
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
1,177 loans in 2025, against a peak of 1,863 in 2021.
Originated means the loan was made: applications denied, withdrawn or not accepted are not counted. The Fidelity Bank took 1,590 applications in 2025.
37.7% of its 2025 loans were purchase loans; 96.7% were Conventional.
Purchase 37.7% · Refinance 27.6% · Other 22.4% · Home improvement 12.2% Conventional 96.7% · VA 1.6% · FHA 1.5% · USDA (RHS or FSA) 0.2% · of 1,177 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
3 states, 19 metros, 72 counties
State
Loans
Share
North Carolina
1,081
91.8%
Virginia
69
5.9%
South Carolina
27
2.3%
Largest metro areas, 2025
Loans originated
Metro area
Loans
Raleigh-Cary
177
Greensboro-High Point
168
Winston-Salem
164
Durham-Chapel Hill
118
Burlington
72
Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia
69
Pinehurst-Southern Pines
56
Fayetteville
29
Wilmington
19
Greenville-Anderson-Greer
11
Identifiers
LEI (Legal Entity Identifier, the global company code HMDA has used since 2018)
25490012KFFZI81TDT02
2018–2025
RSSD (the Federal Reserve's identifier for banks and their parents)
584920
2004–2023
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
311507
1990–2017
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
9584920
2011–2012
Established 1 January 1909. Reported under HMDA 1990-2025.
The Fidelity 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.
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