All rankings · Q2 2026 only · April–June 2026 · FOIA as of 2026-06-30

SBA 7(a) lender rankings in Q2 2026

Banks, credit unions, and nonbank lenders ranked by GrossApproval for April–June 2026.

$7.64B approved nationwide across 14,357 loans. Change the period to compare another quarter, half, year, or the entire window.

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Quarterly: Q2 2026 — April 1 – June 30, 2026.

Q2 2026 approved

$80.1M

1.0% of U.S. Q2 2026 volume

Loans in Q2 2026

129

Avg $621K

Average loan

$621K

GrossApproval / loan count

Jobs supported

1,383

SBA reported, Q2 2026

Monthly approvals in Q2 2026 · Kentucky

April–June 2026 only.

Top SBA 7(a) lenders in Q2 2026

Ranked by GrossApproval in Kentucky · April–June 2026 · Click a lender to filter this page

#LenderTypeLoansApprovedAvg loan
1The Bancorp Bank National AssociationCommunity bank2$8.8M$4.4M
2Stock Yards Bank & Trust CompanyCommunity bank13$7.9M$611K
3Heritage Bank IncCommunity bank3$6.4M$2.1M
4Commonwealth Business BankCommunity bank1$5.0M$5.0M
5Newtek Bank, National AssociationFintech / nonbank17$4.9M$290K
6U.S. Bank, National AssociationBig bank12$4.8M$398K
7Republic Bank & Trust CompanyCommunity bank9$4.6M$517K
8American Momentum BankCommunity bank4$4.6M$1.2M
9GBankCommunity bank1$4.4M$4.4M
10First Internet Bank of IndianaCommunity bank2$2.9M$1.4M
11Hometown BankCommunity bank1$2.2M$2.2M
12Byline BankCommunity bank1$2.0M$2.0M
13First Merchants BankCommunity bank1$1.9M$1.9M
14Capital Bank, National AssociationCommunity bank1$1.8M$1.8M
15Old National BankCommunity bank2$1.7M$869K
16Live Oak Banking CompanyCommunity bank2$1.6M$825K
17First Western SBLC, LLCFintech / nonbank1$1.6M$1.6M
18Pathward National AssociationCommunity bank1$1.5M$1.5M
19JPMorgan Chase Bank, National AssociationBig bank4$1.4M$353K
20The Huntington National BankBig bank6$1.2M$204K
21TowneBankCommunity bank1$961K$961K
22Community Trust Bank, Inc.Community bank9$915K$102K
23Northeast BankCommunity bank5$864K$173K
24Commercial Bank of CaliforniaCommunity bank1$703K$703K
25Fifth Third BankBig bank3$640K$213K

Lender type mix in Q2 2026

FDIC-insured banks vs NCUA credit unions vs nonbank/fintech names. Q2 2026 only.

  • Community bank$64.6M · 80.7%
  • Big bank$8.4M · 10.5%
  • Fintech / nonbank$7.1M · 8.8%

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“Kentucky SBA 7(a) approvals totaled $80.1M in Q2 2026 — Resource SBA 7(a) Lending.”

Methodology & data source

This page includes calendar Q2 2026 only. Loan-level SBA 7(a) FOIA approvals are filtered by ApprovalDate; loans from every other quarter in the extract are ignored. Dollar volume is GrossApproval. Lender identity is grouped by FDIC certificate or NCUA charter when present, otherwise by a normalized lender name. Industry cuts use 2-digit NAICS sectors (31–33 manufacturing, 44–45 retail, and 48–49 transportation are collapsed). Geography uses ProjectState / ProjectCounty (where the funded project is located), not the lender headquarters. ZIP rankings use BorrZip (borrower mailing ZIP), which can differ from the project county. Rows without a positive GrossApproval or parseable ApprovalDate are excluded from all rollups. Missing NAICS codes are bucketed as Unclassified. This dataset contains approved loans only — it cannot support an approval-rate statistic. Individual borrower names and addresses are not published.

Period
Q2 2026
As of
June 30, 2026
Loans in Q2 2026
14,357
Coverage
April 1, 2026 – June 30, 2026

373,981 loans in the FOIA extract fell outside Q2 2026 and were ignored in this view.

Within Q2 2026, no rows were dropped for missing GrossApproval, lender identity, NAICS, or project state. Unclassified NAICS (if any) remain in totals and are labeled explicitly.

  • Only Q2 2026 approvals are published on this page. Other quarters in the FOIA CSV are dropped before ranking.
  • SBA updates the FOIA extract quarterly; drop the new CSV in src/app/documents/sba7aloandata/ and re-run npm run sba-lending:build.
  • Franchise names are sparse; brands with fewer than 10 loans in the quarter (3 in a state cut) are omitted from the franchise table.
  • County drill-downs cover the top project counties in a state. ZIP tables are top borrower ZIPs, not a full ZIP census.

Source: U.S. Small Business Administration FOIA 7(a) loan-level dataset · File FOIA_7a_FY2020_Present_asof_260630.csv. Last built September 11, 2026. Resource SBA 7(a) Lending in Q2 2026.