Biz2Credit Small Business Lending IndexsuperscriptstartTMsuperscruptend August 2017

Big banks grant nearly one-in-four funding requests, while small banks approve almost half of applications they receive from small business borrowers

Loan approval rates at big banks ($10 billion-plus in assets) hit another post-recession high in August 2017, according to the latest Biz2Credit Small Business Lending IndexsuperscriptstartTMsuperscruptend , the monthly analysis of more than 1,000 small business loan applications on ahrefstartBiz2Credit.comahrefend. Loan approval percentages of institutional investors also set a new record..