Name of the lender

The Farmers & Merchants BankMortgage rates, total loan costs and denial rate, 2025

HMDA year2025

Years filed2018 to 2025

Head office: West Lafayette, IN
Reporting agency: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)
Earlier names on its filings: Farmers & Merchants Bank; The Farmers and Merchants Bank

Figures by state (CSV)

The Farmers & Merchants Bank reported 38 mortgage applications in the HMDA data of 2025.

It originated 32 loans in 2025, for $8.1 million in total.

The lender filed the interest rate as “Exempt” for all of its 32 loans originated in 2025. This page shows no median interest rate.

This page shows no median total loan costs, because fewer than 20 loans report the amount.

It denied 13.2% of the applications that it decided in 2025, and the national denial rate was 22.6%.

Filed figures of The Farmers & Merchants Bank, 2025
Figure	This lender	United States
Applications	38Under 0.1% of the US total	11,766,671
Loans originated	32$8.1 million	6,827,891
Median interest rate	ExemptWhy there is no median	6.375%
Median total loan costs	Exempt	$6,413
Denial rate	13.2%	22.6%

HMDA data are generally not used alone to determine whether a lender is complying with fair lending laws. The data do not include some legitimate credit risk considerations for loan approval and loan pricing decisions.
The words of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Source: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Summary of 2023 Data on Mortgage Lending (11 July 2024), copied on 2 Oct 2026. The figures on this page are from the HMDA data of 2025, the snapshot dataset.

Since the last update

No change on record

No tracked figure of this lender has changed since this site started its record. The record compares each update of the HMDA data with the update before it. The record of updates.

PricingMedians of 2025 loans

Median interest rate, 2025Exempt

The lender filed the interest rate as “Exempt” for all of its 32 loans originated in 2025.

Medians are for originated closed-end loans with a first lien. Reverse mortgages, open-end lines of credit and loans for a business purpose are not in the medians.

The applications, the loans originated and the denial rate on this page do not need the exempt fields.

A lender with a partial exemption can file “Exempt” in place of the interest rate, the total loan costs and some other fields. The glossary has the rule.

If a financial institution is eligible for a partial exemption for a specific transaction, then the financial institution is not required to collect, record, or report certain data points for the transaction.
Source: CFPB, A Beginner’s Guide to Accessing and Using Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Data (June 2022), copied on 2 Oct 2026.

Action takenHMDA codes and labels

Records of The Farmers & Merchants Bank by the action taken, 2025
Action taken	Records	Share of records	US share
1Loan originated	32	84.2%	50.4%
2Application approved but not accepted	1	2.6%	3.1%
3Application denied	5	13.2%	15.6%
4Application withdrawn by applicant	0	0.0%	12.6%
5File closed for incompleteness	0	0.0%	5.1%
6Purchased loan	0	0.0%	11.7%
7Preapproval request denied	0	0.0%	0.4%
8Preapproval request approved but not accepted	0	0.0%	1.1%

The denial rate is code 3 divided by codes 1, 2 and 3: the applications that the lender decided. Codes 4 and 5 are applications with no decision. Code 6 is a loan that the lender bought.

Denial reasonsFirst reason coded

The lender has fewer than 25 denials in 2025, so this page shows no reasons.

Loan types and purposesLoans of 2025

Applications of The Farmers & Merchants Bank by loan type
Loan type	Applications	Loans originated	Denial rate
Conventional	38	32	13.2%US 23.4%

Applications of The Farmers & Merchants Bank by loan purpose
Loan purpose	Applications	Loans originated	Share of loans
Home purchase	18	14	43.8%
Home improvement	2	2	6.3%
Refinancing	14	12	37.5%
Cash-out refinancing	0	0	0.0%
Other purpose	4	4	12.5%

The denial rate of a loan type is the denied applications divided by the decided applications of that type. It is "n/a" under 25 decided applications.

States where it lends1 state with 25 applications or more

The Farmers & Merchants Bank by state, 2025In order of the names. A state with 100 applications or more links to the lender's page for the state.
State	Applications	Loans originated	Median interest rate	Median total loan costs	Denial rate
Indiana	38	32	n/a	n/a	13.2%

Figures by yearHMDA 2022 to 2025

The Farmers & Merchants Bank by HMDA year"n/a" shows a year with fewer than 25 applications, or a year that this site does not process.
Year	Applications	Loans originated	Median interest rate	Median total loan costs	Denial rate	Records filed
2025	38	32	n/a	n/a	13.2%	38
2024	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	22
2023	52	39	n/a	n/a	18.8%	52
2022	45	34	n/a	n/a	19.0%	45
2021	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	163
2020	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	317
2019	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	68
2018	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	45

Records filed is the count on the lender's HMDA transmittal sheet. It includes purchased loans and requests for preapproval.

Denial rate by year: The Farmers & Merchants Bank and the United States

The Farmers & Merchants BankUnited States

Peer lenders9 lenders

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Official channelsLinks checked 2 Oct 2026

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Cite this page

Page: Lender Register, "The Farmers & Merchants Bank (West Lafayette, IN)", https://lenderregister.com/lender/549300ohtbyvllo8nw69-the-farmers-merchants-bank/
Lender: The Farmers & Merchants Bank, LEI 549300OHTBYVLLO8NW69
Source: Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data, 2025, snapshot dataset
Data date: HMDA year 2025. Page made 2 Oct 2026.

Provenance

The figures come from the public HMDA loan/application register of 2022 to 2025. The count of records filed comes from the transmittal sheets of 2018 to 2025. The FFIEC and the CFPB publish them at ffiec.cfpb.gov. The name, the head office and the agency are from the newest transmittal sheet of the LEI.

This site withholds a figure with fewer than 25 applications and a median with fewer than 20 loans. Method of the figures. Terms. Report an error.

Questions

How many loans did The Farmers & Merchants Bank buy from other lenders in 2025?: It reported no purchased loans. HMDA counts a purchased loan apart from the applications, so the denial rate does not include it.
In which states did The Farmers & Merchants Bank originate the most loans in 2025?: It had 25 applications or more in one state only: Indiana, with 32 loans originated.
Which loan types did The Farmers & Merchants Bank originate in 2025?: All its loans were of one type: 32 Conventional.
How did the applications of The Farmers & Merchants Bank change from 2022 to 2025?: It reported 45 applications in 2022 and 38 in 2025.