Lending where peers seldom go
Of its loans, 39.7% were in poorer neighborhoods (low- and moderate-income, or LMI, tracts), against 18.6% at similar lenders: state non-member banks making between half and twice as many loans. In majority-minority neighborhoods the gap is wider still, 36.4% against 6.9%. Both shares are higher than at more than four in five peers, and both were similar in 2024.