Lending where peers do little
Half its loans, 50.0%, were in majority-minority neighborhoods, against 7.1% at similar lenders (state member banks making between half and twice as many loans). Loans in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods made up 36.7%, against 17.7%, and to low- and moderate-income borrowers 38.5%, against 24.9%. Its markets, around Memphis and Jackson, may explain much of this.