New markets, more loans
It made 123 loans, up from 88, while similar lenders, state non-member banks making between half and twice as many loans, grew 9%. Its growth was faster than at more than four in five of them. It reported loans in at least five new markets in 2025, from Hattiesburg and Jackson in Mississippi to Dothan and Albany, Georgia. In Hattiesburg it took 1.0% of the dollars in its first year, ranking 27 of 177. The data do not say what drew it into these places.