SBA lender · 7(a) program
First Business Bank
First Business Bank has approved 788 SBA loans worth $691.0M since FY2010 - the #145 SBA lender in the country by dollars approved. Everything below comes from the SBA’s own loan-level records.
National rank
#145
0.14% of all SBA dollars
Total approved
$691.0M
FY2010 onward
Loans
788
Median loan
$496,000
+176% vs national
Median rate
6.00%
-0.75 pts vs national
Charge-off rate
7.1%
409 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 First Business Bank’s numbers say
First Business Bank sits solidly inside the SBA lending field, having approved 788 loans for a gross total of $691.0M since fiscal 2010. Its median loan of $496,000 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 6.00%, 0.75 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, 7.1% were charged off, right at the national figure. 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 14% of its approvals went to businesses the SBA classified as new rather than existing, against 11% nationally.
Where First Business Bank lends
| State | Loans | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kansas | 182 | |
| Wisconsin | 140 | |
| Missouri | 134 | |
| California | 82 | |
| Florida | 40 | |
| Texas | 34 | |
| Virginia | 17 | |
| North Carolina | 13 |
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 First Business Bank
- How many SBA loans has First Business Bank approved?
- First Business Bank has approved 788 SBA loans totalling $690,977,800 in gross approvals from fiscal year 2010 through the most recent SBA data release. That places it #145 among all SBA lenders by dollars approved.
- What is the typical First Business Bank SBA loan size?
- The median gross approval is $496,000, with the middle 80% of loans falling between $100,000 and $2,230,000. The national median across all SBA lenders is $180,000.
- What interest rate does First Business Bank charge on SBA 7(a) loans?
- The median initial note rate on First Business Bank's 7(a) approvals is 6.00%, 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 First Business Bank's SBA loan charge-off rate?
- 7.1% 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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