How the numbers are built
DealRoom ranks SBA 7(a) lenders from public SBA loan-approval records. National rankings reflect how much 7(a) volume a lender approved over the fiscal year; state rankings reflect how active a lender has been in that state over the most recent trailing twelve months.
Data sources
A lender's national rank is driven by total 7(a) production in the fiscal year — the count and dollar volume of 7(a) loans the lender approved. Lenders that approve more 7(a) money rank higher.
Production is read from SBA's published approval records, attributed to the approving lender of record. Loans sold or serviced by a different institution are still credited to the lender that approved them.
A lender's per-state rank reflects approval activity in that state over the trailing twelve months, so a regionally active lender is not buried under national banks that do little business locally.
We use a trailing window rather than the full fiscal year so a state page reflects who is lending there now, not who led three years ago.
Beyond rank, each lender profile shows the typical loan size, the industries and states the lender is most active in, the franchise brands it has financed, and an estimated funding speed — all derived from that lender's own approval history.
What this does not tell you
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