Byline Bank: SBA Lending Record

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

Byline Bank: loans and programs

Byline Bank stands at 4,434 approved loans and $5.37 billion gross, FY2017 to FY2026. SBA, not Byline Bank, guarantees these 4,434 loans. Counts for Byline Bank describe records only. Byline Bank holds or held these 4,434 loans, as SBA records them. SBA lists Byline Bank with the lender state IL. Program split at Byline Bank: 4,434 for 7(a), 0 for 504.

Classes and places for Byline Bank

Byline Bank has 2,970 loans, of 4,434, outside the classes covered on this site. Of the classes followed, Byline Bank runs: Limited-service restaurant (263), Full-service restaurant (230), Gas station and truck stop (189), Liquor store (111), Child care center (107), Fitness center (100), Grocery store (54), Automotive mechanical repair (car and truck) (50). RV park and campground closes the class list with 5 loans. Limited-service restaurant borrowers can place a project next to 263 such loans at Byline Bank. Full-service restaurant follows with 230 loans at Byline Bank. In Gas station and truck stop, Byline Bank shows 189 loans. Wisconsin ranks second among states for Byline Bank, at 443 loans. Loans of Byline Bank by state begin with Illinois (1,124), Wisconsin (443), California (396), Texas (310), Florida (247), Michigan (176), Indiana (124), Minnesota (119), Colorado (116), Ohio (114). The state list closes with West Virginia, 5 loans. IL is where SBA places the lender; Illinois shows the most loans, 1,124.

Byline Bank: cancellations and losses

For Byline Bank approvals from FY2017 to FY2024, 16.1% were cancelled after approval, a floor; and 16.4% as a ceiling that counts undisbursed loans. Byline Bank shows floors, not final rates, and so later losses in the group would raise it. On the FY2017 to FY2021 disbursements of Byline Bank, 6.0% stand charged off as of the file, a floor, over 1,875 loans. The five-year view for Byline Bank, measured from approval, reads 2.6%.

Using the Byline Bank record in a study

Limited-service restaurant at Byline Bank starts with a test of demand. Then, a study of Full-service restaurant needs to test development cost, with 230 such loans on Byline Bank's record. Then comes debt service coverage: Byline Bank shows $5.37 billion across 4,434 loans, but the coverage test belongs to the project alone. Fourth stands the appraisal, which no count of 189 Gas station and truck stop loans at Byline Bank can displace. A borrower in Illinois will see 1,124 loans in the Byline Bank record, and one in Wisconsin, 443. Only Byline Bank can say what it asks of a borrower. No approval is implied here, and Byline Bank sets its own terms.

SBA loans held by Byline 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 FY20264,434
Gross dollars approved$5.37 billion
SBA 7(a) loans4,434
SBA 504 loans0

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)16.1%
The same, counting loans still undisbursed as cancelled (a ceiling)16.4%
Charged off to date, FY2017 to FY2021 disbursed loans (a floor)6.0%
Charged off within five years of approval2.6%
Loans in that cohort1,875

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 classes2,970
Limited-service restaurant263
Full-service restaurant230
Gas station and truck stop189
Liquor store111
Child care center107
Fitness center100
Grocery store54
Automotive mechanical repair (car and truck)50
Hotel and motel46
Coffee shop and snack bar40
Dental office32
Car wash29
Nonresidential lessor (flex, office and retail investor buildings)29
Beverage manufacturing (breweries, wineries, distilleries)25
Beauty salon22
Assisted living (without nursing care)20
Rehabilitation and therapy clinic16
Medical office (physicians)15
Skilled nursing14
Behavioral health and addiction treatment14
Self storage11
Caterers (includes banquet halls with catering staff)11
Data center10
Warehouse and distribution6
RV park and campground5

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-20624.

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