Busey Bank: SBA Lending Record

What SBA's own loan files show about Busey Bank as an SBA lender, and how a lender's record bears on a feasibility study.

What SBA's file shows for Busey Bank

SBA files 693 loans approved in FY2017 to FY2026 under Busey Bank as holder. Busey Bank loans: $703.3 million in gross approved dollars, 693 loans in all. These 693 loans are ones SBA shows Busey Bank holding or having held. SBA, never Busey Bank, is the guarantor. By program, 693 are 7(a), none 504, at Busey Bank; a 7(a) book throughout. Busey Bank appears as holder, current or last.

518 of 693 loans, held by Busey Bank, sit in no listed asset class. At Busey Bank, rows by class cover the remainder. For Busey Bank, full-service restaurant leads the class rows, 36 loans. Then fitness center (14), 13 loans in limited-service restaurant and 11 in veterinary clinic. Lower Busey Bank rows: coffee shop and snack bar with 10 loans, hotel and motel at 9 and beauty salon (8). Smaller Busey Bank classes: see the page table.

Busey Bank opens geographically with 166 in Colorado, Illinois (152), 137 in Missouri, Florida (63), 61 in Kansas, Arizona (39), 17 in Indiana, Texas (13) and 9 in Oklahoma. Colorado holds the largest share, 166 loans. Later states carry fewer Busey Bank loans each; depth varies by place.

At Busey Bank: cancellations and charge-offs

Busey Bank cancellation floor stands at 8.2%, counting FY2017 to FY2024 approvals. If Busey Bank loans still undisbursed count as cancelled, 9.2% follows as a ceiling. Between 8.2% and 9.2% lie Busey Bank approvals SBA still shows undisbursed. Among 334 loans disbursed FY2017 to FY2021, Busey Bank has 3.3% charged off, a floor. Five years from approval: Busey Bank charge-offs are withheld. Busey Bank outcomes show; reasons do not. Busey Bank cohort rates cover FY2017 to FY2021 disbursements. Busey Bank: 8.2% is a floor, 693 loans notwithstanding, not a forecast. Busey Bank rates stay floors; 693 loans could still lift 8.2%.

Busey Bank in a study

Busey Bank, a bank or lender: 693 recorded loans lend context. Nothing in Busey Bank rows states what Busey Bank asks of an applicant. At Busey Bank, weigh Colorado then full-service restaurant, 693 loans deep, against the project. Busey Bank: other sources go in the study.

Busey Bank totals are context. 693 loans say little about a project, Colorado or beyond it. 693 loans at Busey Bank set no fitness center demand; Illinois conditions decide it, not Busey Bank. Each budget line, 693 loans aside, meets raised funds. 693 loans give Busey Bank breadth, not depth. 693 loans or one, a margin must absorb 8.2% at least, Busey Bank aside. Busey Bank aside, debt service coverage keeps 8.2% in view, on stabilized income. At Busey Bank, loan size follows appraised value. Busey Bank: no study promises approval; 693 loans or none, it prepares the file.

SBA loans held by Busey Bank

SBA guarantees these loans; the lender does not. The lender's name and every figure come from the U.S. Small Business Administration's public 7(a) and 504 FOIA file (data.sba.gov).

7(a) lender is the bank or lender the loan is currently assigned to (or last held it), as SBA records it; 504 lender is the Certified Development Company (CDC). 504 third-party (first-lien) lenders are free text with no identifier and are not credited.

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY2026693
Gross dollars approved$703.3 million
SBA 7(a) loans693
SBA 504 loans0

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)8.2%
The same, counting loans still undisbursed as cancelled (a ceiling)9.2%
Charged off to date, FY2017 to FY2021 disbursed loans (a floor)3.3%
Charged off within five years of approvalwithheld
Loans in that cohort334

Both rates are floors. SBA withholds the status of open loans, so a loan counts as charged off only once SBA reports it; a rate needs at least 30 loans in its cohort and is otherwise not reported.

Loans by asset class

Asset classLoans
Not in any of the 39 asset classes518
Full-service restaurant36
Fitness center14
Limited-service restaurant13
Veterinary clinic11
Coffee shop and snack bar10
Hotel and motel9
Beauty salon8
Nonresidential lessor (flex, office and retail investor buildings)7
Automotive mechanical repair (car and truck)7
Medical office (physicians)7
Child care center7
Beverage manufacturing (breweries, wineries, distilleries)6
Dental office6
Liquor store5

Classes with 5 or more loans; smaller ones are withheld, and more where a small one could be derived.

Loans by project state

States with 5 or more loans; smaller ones are withheld, and more where a small one could be derived.

A value marked withheld rests on fewer than 5 loans, or is withheld so that such a figure cannot be derived from other published figures.

Source: U.S. Small Business Administration, 7(a) and 504 loan-level FOIA files (data.sba.gov), as of 2026-09-30; Loan Analytics lender cell LP-fdic-16450.

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