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Article: State Farm Builds for Vast Loan Expansion.(Brief Article)
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- American Banker
- Article date:
- February 16, 2001
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State Farm, which has been developing banking capabilities at a measured pace since getting a thrift charter in November 1998, now has leapt into consumer lending at a rate that, if its targets are hit, could mean billions of dollars of annualized volume by yearend.
So much for baby steps.
Rather than outsource loan processing, State Farm has opened its own center, State Farm Bank Loan Center, in the St. Louis suburb of Creve Coeur, Mo. The company hopes the center will underwrite and process 10,000 loans per month by yearend.
Mark Ellis, manager of the center, which will also be a consumer loan information source for State Farm agents, said its staff will more ...