Lending where peers rarely go
Some 45.0% of its loans in 2025 went to majority-minority neighborhoods, against 6.1% for similar lenders, which here means state non-member banks making between half and twice as many loans. That is higher than about nine in ten of them. Another 37.6% went to low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, about double the peer figure of 18.3%. Its lending sits in 13 Louisiana counties; its largest markets are Baton Rouge and rural Louisiana.