Lending where incomes are lower
Similar lenders, national banks making between half and twice as many loans, placed 16.7% of their loans in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods; United Midwest Savings Bank placed 93.3%. Some 51.1% of its loans went to majority-minority neighborhoods, against 8.6% at peers, and 42.2% to low- and moderate-income borrowers, against 23.6%. With 45 loans in two counties, a few neighborhoods decide these shares.