Reaching poorer borrowers
Low- and moderate-income (LMI) borrowers took 37.5% of its loans and LMI neighborhoods 34.9%, against 26.9% and 18.8% at similar lenders (state non-member banks making between half and twice as many loans). Both were higher than at more than three-quarters of those peers. Its typical loan, $135,000, was smaller than at about seven in ten of them.