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SBA lender · 7(a) program

Hanmi Bank

Hanmi Bank has approved 2,997 SBA loans worth $2.43B since FY2010 - the #49 SBA lender in the country by dollars approved. Everything below comes from the SBA’s own loan-level records.

National rank

#49

0.48% of all SBA dollars

Total approved

$2.43B

FY2010 onward

Loans

2,997

Median loan

$499,000

+177% vs national

Median rate

6.00%

-0.75 pts vs national

Charge-off rate

8.2%

1,296 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 Hanmi Bank’s numbers say

Hanmi Bank sits solidly inside the SBA lending field, having approved 2,997 loans for a gross total of $2.43B since fiscal 2010. Its median loan of $499,000 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, 8.2% were charged off, 0.6 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 8% of its approvals went to businesses the SBA classified as new rather than existing, against 11% nationally.

Where Hanmi Bank lends

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 Hanmi Bank

How many SBA loans has Hanmi Bank approved?
Hanmi Bank has approved 2,997 SBA loans totalling $2,426,739,800 in gross approvals from fiscal year 2010 through the most recent SBA data release. That places it #49 among all SBA lenders by dollars approved.
What is the typical Hanmi Bank SBA loan size?
The median gross approval is $499,000, with the middle 80% of loans falling between $120,000 and $1,900,000. The national median across all SBA lenders is $180,000.
What interest rate does Hanmi Bank charge on SBA 7(a) loans?
The median initial note rate on Hanmi 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 Hanmi Bank's SBA loan charge-off rate?
8.2% 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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