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

$102M

1.3% of U.S. Q2 2026 volume

Loans in Q2 2026

170

Avg $600K

Average loan

$600K

GrossApproval / loan count

Jobs supported

1,923

SBA reported, Q2 2026

Monthly approvals in Q2 2026 · South Carolina

April–June 2026 only.

Top SBA 7(a) lenders in Q2 2026

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

#LenderTypeLoansApprovedAvg loan
1CountybankCommunity bank10$10.9M$1.1M
2First-Citizens Bank & Trust CompanyBig bank9$8.4M$934K
3Climate First BankCommunity bank3$6.2M$2.1M
4First BankCommunity bank4$5.9M$1.5M
5Newtek Bank, National AssociationFintech / nonbank21$5.1M$243K
6Loyal Trust BankCommunity bank1$5.0M$5.0M
7GBankCommunity bank3$4.9M$1.6M
8Live Oak Banking CompanyCommunity bank5$4.6M$920K
9Bank of America, National AssociationBig bank3$4.4M$1.5M
10Pinnacle BankCommunity bank7$4.3M$616K
11United Community BankCommunity bank3$4.2M$1.4M
12U.S. Bank, National AssociationBig bank3$3.8M$1.3M
13TD Bank, National AssociationBig bank23$3.6M$158K
14North Valley BankCommunity bank1$3.1M$3.1M
15The Huntington National BankBig bank7$2.1M$307K
16United Midwest Savings Bank National AssociationCommunity bank4$2.1M$536K
17First Community BankCommunity bank2$2.0M$1.0M
18Northeast BankCommunity bank9$1.7M$185K
19Metro City BankCommunity bank1$1.3M$1.3M
20United FCUCredit union1$1.3M$1.3M
21Midwest Regional BankCommunity bank3$1.2M$414K
22Port 51 Lending LLCFintech / nonbank1$1.2M$1.2M
23SouthState Bank, National AssociationCommunity bank6$1.2M$193K
24Banesco USACommunity bank1$1.0M$1.0M
25Bank of HopeCommunity bank1$935K$935K

Lender type mix in Q2 2026

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

  • Community bank$68.8M · 67.5%
  • Big bank$22.8M · 22.4%
  • Fintech / nonbank$9.1M · 8.9%
  • Credit union$1.3M · 1.3%

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“South Carolina SBA 7(a) approvals totaled $102M 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.