SBA lender · 7(a) program
First Western Bank & Trust
First Western Bank & Trust has approved 299 SBA loans worth $77.1M since FY2010. Everything below comes from the SBA’s own loan-level records.
National rank
#611
0.02% of all SBA dollars
Total approved
$77.1M
FY2010 onward
Loans
299
Median loan
$111,000
-38% vs national
Median rate
6.00%
-0.75 pts vs national
Charge-off rate
0.7%
140 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 Western Bank & Trust’s numbers say
First Western Bank & Trust sits in the long tail of the SBA lending field, having approved 299 loans for a gross total of $77.1M since fiscal 2010. Its median loan of $111,000 is well below the $180,000 national median, typical of a lender leaning on SBA Express and smaller working-capital facilities.
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, 0.7% were charged off, 6.8 points below 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 15% of its approvals went to businesses the SBA classified as new rather than existing, against 11% nationally.
Where First Western Bank & Trust lends
| State | Loans | Share |
|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | 153 | |
| Minnesota | 145 | |
| Wisconsin | 1 |
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 Western Bank & Trust
- How many SBA loans has First Western Bank & Trust approved?
- First Western Bank & Trust has approved 299 SBA loans totalling $77,092,900 in gross approvals from fiscal year 2010 through the most recent SBA data release. That places it outside the top 500 among all SBA lenders by dollars approved.
- What is the typical First Western Bank & Trust SBA loan size?
- The median gross approval is $111,000, with the middle 80% of loans falling between $30,000 and $500,000. The national median across all SBA lenders is $180,000.
- What interest rate does First Western Bank & Trust charge on SBA 7(a) loans?
- The median initial note rate on First Western Bank & Trust'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 Western Bank & Trust's SBA loan charge-off rate?
- 0.7% 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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