Poorer neighborhoods
Low- and moderate-income (LMI) neighborhoods received 66.7% of its loans, against 17.5% at similar lenders (state non-member banks making between half and twice as many loans), the highest among them. LMI borrowers took 33.1%, higher than about two-thirds of them. Much of its lending is in non-metro Tennessee and non-metro Kentucky, where it has lent since 2001, and those places may account for the large share.