Where others lend less
Almost a third of its loans, 32.3%, went to poorer neighborhoods (low- and moderate-income, or LMI, tracts). Similar lenders, state non-member banks making between half and twice as many loans, put 17.6% there, and Legacy Bank's share was higher than at more than four in five of them. Majority-minority areas took 16.8% of its loans, against 5.4% at its peers.