The Washington Trust Company, of Westerly is a Rhode Island bank that ranks 8 of 475 lenders in Providence and grew 14% in 2025, adding share in Portland, Maine, and Worcester.
Growth ahead of peers, and loans bought as well
Originations rose 14% to 1,290, against 10% for similar lenders (state non-member banks making between half and twice as many loans) and for the whole market. It also bought 122 loans, up from 51, where the typical peer bought none. Volume remains below the 2,583 loans of 2020.
More lending in LMI and majority-minority areas than peers
LMI (low- and moderate-income) areas took 22.1% of its loans, against 14.8%, higher than at nearly nine in ten similar lenders; majority-minority areas took 19.6%, against 7.2%. Five years before, those shares were 6.0% and 2.9%. LMI borrowers took 22.6%, lower than peers' 27.4%; its larger loans, typically $245,000 against $195,000, are one possible reason.
Steady in Providence, gaining in Portland and Worcester
It ranked 8 of 475 lenders in Providence, its market since before 1990, with an unchanged 2.4%. Its share rose 1.0 points to 1.0% in Portland, where it ranked 27 of 364, and 0.6 points to 0.7% in Worcester, where it ranked 40 of 451.
A broad product mix
Home purchases were 47.0% of its loans, home improvement 24.1% and refinances 21.1%. FHA loans (insured by the Federal Housing Administration) were 6.4%, against 2.2% at peers, and jumbo loans (larger than the conforming limit) 5.2%, against 2.5%. Only 0.3% were higher-priced (a rate well above the average for similar loans), against 1.6%.
Questions the data can answer next
Which counties in Portland and Worcester account for its gains, and which lenders lost share there?
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
1,290 loans in 2025, against a peak of 2,583 in 2020.
Originated means the loan was made: applications denied, withdrawn or not accepted are not counted. The Washington Trust Company, of Westerly took 2,241 applications in 2025.
47.0% of its 2025 loans were purchase loans; 92.1% were Conventional.
Purchase 47.0% · Home improvement 24.1% · Refinance 21.1% · Other 7.8% Conventional 92.1% · FHA 6.4% · VA 1.5% · of 1,290 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
5 states, 14 metros, 30 counties
State
Loans
Share
Rhode Island
1,040
80.6%
Massachusetts
158
12.2%
Connecticut
83
6.4%
New Hampshire
5
0.4%
Maine
4
0.3%
Largest metro areas, 2025
Loans originated
Metro area
Loans
Providence-Warwick
1,064
Boston
59
Cambridge-Newton-Framingham
50
Norwich-New London-Willimantic
48
Worcester
25
Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford
16
Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury
5
Barnstable Town
4
New Haven
4
Portland-South Portland
4
Identifiers
LEI (Legal Entity Identifier, the global company code HMDA has used since 2018)
549300HKYBSATM44Q425
2018–2025
RSSD (the Federal Reserve's identifier for banks and their parents)
816603
2004–2023
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
323623
1990–2017
Established 1 January 1800. Reported under HMDA 1990-2025.
The Washington Trust Company, of Westerly 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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