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Which Connecticut Banks Are Actually Growing Their CRE Book — And Who To Call

39 institutions qualified in Connecticut: at least one branch in the state (FDIC SOD 2025) and a CRE book of $100m or more. Figures below are institution-level and unprorated — a bank lending in multiple states shows its full CRE book on every state page where it qualifies, not a state-prorated share.

Largest CRE Books, Headquartered in Connecticut

10 of 20 Connecticut-headquartered institutions.

#InstitutionCRE bookContact
1Liberty Bank
Middletown · FDIC Cert #17943
$3.37bnContact available
2Union Savings Bank
Danbury · FDIC Cert #18190
$1.30bnContact available
3Bankwell Bank
New Canaan · FDIC Cert #57368
$1.27bnContact available
4First County Bank
Stamford · FDIC Cert #18204
$877mContact available
5Ion Bank
Naugatuck · FDIC Cert #18198
$845mContact available
6Fairfield County Bank
Ridgefield · FDIC Cert #18213
$605mContact available
7Thomaston Savings Bank
Thomaston · FDIC Cert #18258
$520mContact available
8Dime Bank
Norwich · FDIC Cert #18200
$376mContact available
9Patriot Bank, National Association
Stamford · FDIC Cert #33928
$376mContact available
10Ascend Bank
Guilford · FDIC Cert #18194
$368mContact available

Fastest Growing

Top 10 by organic growth. Percent organic growth over four quarters, with a $250m prior-quarter book floor; shrinking institutions are excluded.

#InstitutionOrganic growthContact
1First County Bank
Stamford · FDIC Cert #18204
+29.9% +$202mContact available
2Dime Bank
Norwich · FDIC Cert #18200
+25.4% +$76mContact available
3Patriot Bank, National Association
Stamford · FDIC Cert #33928
+24.0% +$73mContact available
4Ives Bank
Danbury · FDIC Cert #15912
+15.6% +$49mContact available
5Ascend Bank
Guilford · FDIC Cert #18194
+12.9% +$37mContact available
6Thomaston Savings Bank
Thomaston · FDIC Cert #18258
+10.5% +$49mContact available
7Union Savings Bank
Danbury · FDIC Cert #18190
+9.2% +$109mContact available
8Liberty Bank
Middletown · FDIC Cert #17943
+7.9% +$246mContact available
9Fairfield County Bank
Ridgefield · FDIC Cert #18213
+7.8% +$44mContact available
10Atlantic Community Bankers Bank
Camp Hill · FDIC Cert #24829
+6.1% +$25mContact available

National and Regional Lenders with Branches Here

Top 20 by CRE book size.

#InstitutionCRE bookContact
1Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
Sioux Falls · FDIC Cert #3511
$103.80bnContact available
2Bank of America, National Association
Charlotte · FDIC Cert #3510
$55.21bnContact available
3Flagstar Bank, National Association
Hicksville · FDIC Cert #32541
$32.76bnContact available
4Citibank, National Association
Sioux Falls · FDIC Cert #7213
$25.19bnContact available
5Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company
Buffalo · FDIC Cert #588
$24.11bnContact available
6TD Bank, National Association
Wilmington · FDIC Cert #18409
$23.57bnContact available
7Citizens Bank, National Association
Providence · FDIC Cert #57957
$22.95bnContact available
8Capital One, National Association
Mclean · FDIC Cert #4297
$22.89bnContact available
9Santander Bank, N.A.
Wilmington · FDIC Cert #29950
$16.18bnContact available
10KeyBank National Association
Cleveland · FDIC Cert #17534
$14.14bnContact available
11The Northern Trust Company
Chicago · FDIC Cert #913
$5.39bnContact available
12NBT Bank, National Association
Norwich · FDIC Cert #7230
$3.70bnContact available
13Liberty Bank
Middletown · FDIC Cert #17943
$3.37bnContact available
14The Washington Trust Company, of Westerly
Westerly · FDIC Cert #23623
$2.07bnContact available
15Union Savings Bank
Danbury · FDIC Cert #18190
$1.30bnContact available
16Bankwell Bank
New Canaan · FDIC Cert #57368
$1.27bnContact available
17PeoplesBank
Holyoke · FDIC Cert #90213
$1.23bnNo contact yet
18Centreville Bank
West Warwick · FDIC Cert #17764
$1.09bnContact available
19First County Bank
Stamford · FDIC Cert #18204
$877mContact available
20Westfield Bank
Westfield · FDIC Cert #90300
$875mContact available

National institutions

These institutions also clear the state’s qualifying population test — at least one branch presence and a CRE book of $100m or more — but are not evaluated for state relationship-lending purposes and carry no contact: BNY Mellon, National Association (FDIC Cert #7946); JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association (FDIC Cert #628).


Sources. FDIC Call Reports and FDIC Summary of Deposits. The qualifying population excludes de novo institutions, excludes any quarter carrying a >40% QoQ reversal in its CRE book, and requires a CRE book of $100m or more — no deposit-share floor is applied to the qualifying population. The page carries two CRE book size rankings drawn from that same qualifying population, on the same basis: one ranking the state’s largest CRE lenders regardless of where they are headquartered, one ranking the largest lenders headquartered in the state. An institution may appear in both. Growth is percent organic growth over four quarters (30 June 2025 → 30 June 2026), excluding growth attributable to an acquisition, subject to a $250m prior-quarter book floor; institutions with negative organic growth are excluded from the growth list. Institutions with a prior-quarter CRE book above $25bn are also excluded from the growth list — growth at that scale is a national balance-sheet movement, not lending concentrated in any one state, and would otherwise crowd out real local growth on thin-population states. This ceiling applies to the growth list only; the same institutions still appear on the CRE book size rankings above, which rank nationally by design.

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