New Peoples Bankshares, Inc. operates as a financial holding company for New Peoples Bank, Inc. that provides general banking services to the individuals, small to medium-sized businesses, and professional community in the United States. It offers demand deposit, interest-bearing demand deposit, savings deposit, checking money market, health savings, and individual retirement deposit accounts, as well as certificates of deposit. It also provides short-term commercial, medium-term commercial, longer-term commercial, 1-4 family residential, personal, secured commercial, agriculture, personal, mortgage, home equity line of credit, unsecured commercial, working capital, business expansion, equipment and machinery, secured consumer, unsecured consumer, automobile, home improvement, education, and personal investment loans. It provides investment services, which include fixed income products, variable annuities, mutual funds, indexed certificates of deposit, individual retirement accounts, long term care insurance, employee group benefit plans, college savings plans, financial planning, managed money accounts, and estate planning. It offers safe deposit boxes, cashier's checks, cash management services, direct deposit of payroll and social security checks, and automatic drafts; automated teller machines (ATMs); debit and credit cards; electronic banking services, such as internet banking, telephone and mobile banking, remote deposit capture, merchant transaction processing, and wire transfer services; and operates walk-up tellers and drive-in windows. It also offers treasury management and merchant services. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Honaker, Virginia.