Newtek Small Business Finance Helps Businesses Retain 20,000 Employees Through Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loans

BOCA RATON, Fla., April 13, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ., (Nasdaq: NEWT), an internally managed business development company (“BDC”), today announced that Newtek Small Business Finance, LLC (“NSBF”), the Company’s nationally licensed lender under the U.S. Small Business Administration (“SBA”) Section 7(a) Program, is estimating that for the week ending April 17, 2020, NSBF will fund between $200 to $250 million of PPP loans.  NSBF further estimates that these PPP loan fundings will enable its customers to continue to fund the payroll of approximately 20,000 employees.  As of April 13, 2020, NSBF has approved a total of $552 million of PPP loans that are awaiting an SBA E-Tran number. Stifel Financial Corp. and UBS, as well as other existing partners of Newtek, are providing NSBF with referrals and additional financing to originate PPP loans. 

Barry Sloane, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer said, “The continuing operations of small businesses are crucial to the recovery and health of the U.S. economy, as they make up approximately 50% of non-farm GDP.  We feel fortunate to be able to assist our customers, our funding partners’ clients, and members of credit unions and trade associations with whom we have long-standing relationships, as well as the U.S. economy, during these difficult times.   We want to thank our partners at Stifel Financial Corp. and UBS for working with NSBF by referring clients and financing America’s small businesses, and we appreciate the essential role the SBA plays in supporting the small- and medium-sized business market. We are thrilled to estimate that by week’s end we will have provided funds to businesses to maintain or rehire an estimated 20,000 hardworking Americans across the U.S.  We applaud our partners in the banking, credit-union community and trade associations for partnering with Newtek, which enables us to get an early jump on moving the funds to this important customer base.”

About Newtek Business Services Corp.

, Your Business Solutions Company^®, is an internally managed BDC, which along with its controlled portfolio companies, provides a wide range of business and financial solutions under the Newtek^® brand to the small- and medium-sized business (“SMB”) market. Since 1999, Newtek has provided state-of-the-art, cost-efficient products and services and efficient business strategies to SMB relationships across all 50 states to help them grow their sales, control their expenses and reduce their risk.

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