Also known as Small Business Administration
The U.S. Small Business Administration supports lending programs identified in First Merchants’ announcement of its First Savings acquisition.
The September 2025 acquisition announcement described SBA lending among First Savings’ specialty businesses; it did not identify those programs as a separate insured bank.
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First Merchants Bank expanded from a nineteenth-century Muncie institution through a series of acquisitions and a common banking platform. Its story includes a resolved fair-lending case, the 2026 First Savings integration and an announced leadership handover from Mark Hardwick to Mike Stewart in January 2027.
TowneBank was organized by community bankers in 1998 and opened the following year. It grew through local relationships, affiliated services and acquisitions, reaching farther into the Carolinas with Dogwood while selling its vacation-property-management business in 2026.
WaFd’s move away from new home-mortgage lending follows a century of savings-bank expansion and the acquisition of Luther Burbank. Its remaining mortgage book, changing funding mix and proposed EverBank combination show how slowly a banking model can turn.
BankUnited was created through a 2009 failed-bank acquisition and expanded from Florida into commercial banking and national lending. Its 2026 results show how a shift toward operating deposits can improve earnings even while the loan book changes little.
Frost pairs Texas business and household banking with treasury services and institutional finance. Its large securities portfolio makes deposit pricing and reinvestment as important to the story as loan growth.
Emergency lending moved quickly; the fraud accounting remains contested. What the evidence says about controls, forgiveness, lender responsibility and recoveries.
The SBA 7(a) program supports lending through a partial government guarantee to the lender. Borrowers still owe their loans, cash-flow underwriting still matters, and the lender’s recovery depends on program compliance as well as the business’s assets and performance.
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