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SBA lender · 7(a) program

Byline Bank

Byline Bank has approved 6,400 SBA loans worth $7.16B since FY2010 - the #7 SBA lender in the country by dollars approved. Everything below comes from the SBA’s own loan-level records.

National rank

#7

1.41% of all SBA dollars

Total approved

$7.16B

FY2010 onward

Loans

6,400

Median loan

$738,000

+310% vs national

Median rate

6.25%

-0.50 pts vs national

Charge-off rate

13.9%

2,298 resolved FY10-19 loans

Source: U.S. Small Business Administration, SBA 7(a) and 504 FOIA data, as of 2026-06-30. Approvals from FY2010 onward. How we calculate this.

Reading the record

What Byline Bank’s numbers say

Byline Bank sits near the top of the SBA lending field, having approved 6,400 loans for a gross total of $7.16B since fiscal 2010. Its median loan of $738,000 is substantially larger than the $180,000 national median, which usually signals a focus on real-estate-backed or acquisition deals rather than small working-capital notes.

The median initial note rate across its 7(a) approvals is 6.25%, 0.50 points below the national median of 6.75%. Rate medians drawn across fifteen years reflect the mix of loan sizes and vintages a lender wrote as much as its pricing posture - a lender that grew fastest during a high-rate stretch will look expensive here even if its spread was ordinary.

Of its FY2010-FY2019 approvals that have reached a terminal status, 13.9% were charged off, 6.4 points above the national figure of 7.6%. Read that as a description of the credit box a lender chose, not as a verdict on it: lenders serving newer businesses and thinner files will always show higher losses than those writing large, collateralised acquisition loans.

Roughly 18% of its approvals went to businesses the SBA classified as new rather than existing, against 11% nationally.

Where Byline Bank lends

StateLoansShare
Illinois2,329
Wisconsin812
California424
Texas315
Indiana294
Florida239
Michigan208
Ohio161

What it lends against

Source: U.S. Small Business Administration, SBA 7(a) and 504 FOIA data, as of 2026-06-30. Approvals from FY2010 onward. How we calculate this.

Questions about Byline Bank

How many SBA loans has Byline Bank approved?
Byline Bank has approved 6,400 SBA loans totalling $7,159,279,100 in gross approvals from fiscal year 2010 through the most recent SBA data release. That places it #7 among all SBA lenders by dollars approved.
What is the typical Byline Bank SBA loan size?
The median gross approval is $738,000, with the middle 80% of loans falling between $210,000 and $2,600,000. The national median across all SBA lenders is $180,000.
What interest rate does Byline Bank charge on SBA 7(a) loans?
The median initial note rate on Byline Bank's 7(a) approvals is 6.25%, compared with a national median of 6.75%. This is a historical median across all approvals since FY2010, not a quote - SBA 7(a) rates are pegged to a base rate that moves, and your rate depends on loan size, term, and credit profile.
What is Byline Bank's SBA loan charge-off rate?
13.9% of its FY2010-FY2019 approvals that have reached a terminal status were charged off, against a national figure of 7.6%. A charge-off rate reflects the borrowers a lender chose to underwrite as much as anything else, and is not a measure of service quality.

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