Newtek Small Business Finance Lends Financial Support To Credit Unions and Their Members Through PPP Loans
BOCA RATON, Fla., May 07, 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, has processed approximately $80 million of Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) loans across 33 separate credit unions with 2,197 member businesses. NSBF estimates that these PPP loans resulted in approximately 11,749 employees being retained on the payroll of NSBF’s PPP borrowers. As of the date of this release, there is $120 billion of availability remaining for the SBA 7(a) program, which includes SBA 7(a) loans and PPP loans, and NSBF is working closely with credit unions and their members to serve their needs with these loans.
Barry Sloane, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer said, “Since 2005, Newtek has been a strategic alliance provider of CUNA Strategic Services (“CSS”), which develops strategic alliance relationships to offer quality products and services to credit unions and is jointly owned by Credit Union National Association and the state leagues. We are proud of this longstanding relationship and our ability to serve these credit unions and their members, having processed approximately $80 million of PPP loans for credit unions which we believe will help their small business members to sustain their employees and operations during these unprecedented times.”
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