CDFI lenders in Arkansas

• 1 · Name a county or town in ARLender websites, read 29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026
• 2 · Lend statewideLender websites, read 29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026
• 6 · Name Arkansas or part of itLender websites, read 29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026
• 27 · Headquartered here, no area statedCDFI Fund list, 21 Oct 2026
• 7 · Based elsewhere, branch hereFDIC office data as of 30 Oct 2026, NCUA branch data as of 30 Jun 2026
• 40 · Say they lend nationwideLender websites, read 29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026

Each lender is listed once, under the strongest evidence we have. 34 certified CDFIs are headquartered in Arkansas (CDFI Fund list, 21 Oct 2026); 7 of them appear in the first groups because their website names an area here.

Loan types with too few lenders here for a page of their own. Each row quotes the lender's website.

Certified CDFIs were the lender, the CDC or the third-party lender on 280 SBA approvals (278 7(a) loans and 2 504 projects) for borrowers in Arkansas in fiscal years 2020–2026, from 13 CDFIs. The 7(a) loans total $180.1M approved.

Most SBA approvals here: Southern Bancorp Bank (128), FNBC Bank (72), ACC Capital, Inc. (39), RiverBank (22), Peoples Bank (5).

Approval is not disbursement. Each lender page shows its own SBA figures.

Source: U.S. Small Business Administration, 7(a) & 504 FOIA loan data, files as of 30 Sep 2026, downloaded 3 Nov 2026. Our counts, cancelled approvals left out. How we match lenders.

7,563 loans and investments totaling $1.4B (median $50,000) were reported to the CDFI Fund for borrowers and projects in Arkansas in fiscal year 2022, by 77 reporting CDFIs.

Of 602 individual borrowers whose income was reported, 78% had family income at or below 80% of the area median.

CDFI banks and credit unions also reported 23,114 consumer loans in Arkansas totaling $288.6M (Consumer Loan Report, tract totals, so no median); they counted 14% of them as serving low-income borrowers.

Counties with the most recorded loans and investments

Fiscal year 2022; 56 Arkansas counties have at least three. Records whose tract is not in a county we can match are counted in the state total only.

Loans and investments reported in other years: FY2018 3,044 · FY2019 2,085 · FY2020 5,832 · FY2021 9,969.

Only CDFIs that hold an active CDFI Fund award (CDFI Program, Native American CDFI Assistance or the CDFI Rapid Response Program) report these transactions, so this is not all lending by the certified CDFIs on this page. The Fund masks which CDFI made each loan, so we cannot say which lender listed here made them.

Source: CDFI Fund, CDFI/NACA/CDFI RRP Program Award Recipient Data Release, Transaction Level Report and Consumer Loan Report public files for fiscal year 2022 (released Dec 2024; downloaded 3 Nov 2026). Amounts are original loan or investment amounts as reported. Place = the 2010 census tract of each record. How we count.

34 certified CDFIs: 5 loan funds · 2 credit unions · 14 banks or thrifts · 13 bank holding companies. A headquarters address is not a service area; each lender is also listed in its group above.

• Arkadelphia (2): SOUTHERN BANCORP INC, Southern Bancorp Bank
• Ash Flat (2): FNBC Bancorp, Inc., FNBC Bank
• Blytheville (2): FM Bank and Trust, Farmers Bancorp, Inc.
• Fayetteville (1): Communities Unlimited, Inc.
• Fordyce (2): FBT Bancshares, Inc., FBT Bank & Mortgage (Fordyce Bank & Trust Company)
• Helena (2): Helena Bancshares, Inc., Partners Bank
• Huntsville (1): FORGE, Inc.
• Lake Village (2): Bank of Lake Village, Southeast Arkansas Bank Corporation
• Little Rock (3): ACC Capital, Inc., People Trust, Southern Bancorp Capital Partners · city page
• Magnolia (2): GOLDEN OAKS BANCSHARES INC, PEOPLES BANK
• Malvern (1): Clearway Federal Credit Union
• McGehee (4): First National Financial Corporation, First NaturalState Bank, Producers Bank & Trust, SOUTHEAST FINANCIAL BANKSTOCK CORPORATION · city page
• Pine Bluff (1): Cotton Belt FCU
• Pocahontas (1): RiverBank
• Rison (2): GATEWAY BANK, Sigma Holdings, Inc.
• Star City (2): Connect Bank, Star City Bancshares, Inc.
• Walnut Ridge (2): First National Bank of Commerce, First National Capital Corporation
• West Memphis (2): Carlson Bancshares, Inc., Fidelity Bank