Shrinking while peers grew
Its 98 loans were 10% fewer than the year before. Similar lenders, other state non-member banks making between half and twice as many loans, grew 9%, so its fall was steeper than at about four in five of them. It made between 147 and 180 loans a year from 2018 to 2022. The data do not say why; the bank may have chosen to lend less, or demand in its mostly rural counties may have slowed.