First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company: SBA Lending Record

What SBA's own loan files show about First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company as an SBA lender, and how a lender's record bears on a feasibility study.

First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company: loans and programs

1,361 approved loans, $1.18 billion gross, tie to First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company across FY2017 to FY2026. SBA lists First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company with the lender state NC. These 1,361 loans are ones that SBA shows First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company holding, now or before. Program split at First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company: 1,361 for 7(a), 0 for 504. SBA, not First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company, guarantees these 1,361 loans. The figures for First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company are loan records only.

Classes and places for First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company

The followed classes leave 889 of First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company's 1,361 loans unclassified. By loan count the classes for First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company are Dental office (113), Medical office (physicians) (65), Full-service restaurant (55), Limited-service restaurant (36), Child care center (32), Veterinary clinic (27), Automotive mechanical repair (car and truck) (26), Rehabilitation and therapy clinic (20), Fitness center (18), Coffee shop and snack bar (17), Assisted living (without nursing care) (12), Beverage manufacturing (breweries, wineries, distilleries) (6). Hotel and motel closes the class list with 5 loans. Dental office borrowers can weigh a project next to 113 such loans at First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company. Medical office (physicians) follows with 65 loans at First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company. In Full-service restaurant, First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company shows 55 loans. North Carolina ranks second among states for First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company, at 185 loans. Loans of First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company by state begin with California (269), North Carolina (185), Florida (184), South Carolina (117), Georgia (81), Virginia (71), Washington (71), Texas (66), Arizona (42), Colorado (32), Tennessee (28), Kansas (24). The state list ends with Illinois, 5 loans. SBA records the lender state as NC, while the largest state by loans is California.

What SBA records on outcomes for First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company

Of First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company approvals from FY2017 to FY2024, 7.8% are known cancelled, a floor, and the ceiling for First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company, with undisbursed loans counted as cancelled, repeats 7.8%. On the FY2017 to FY2021 disbursements of First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company, 3.3% sit among charge-offs to date, a floor, drawn from 676 loans. First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company shows 1.8% written off inside five years of approval. Every rate for First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company is a floor, and so later losses in the cohort would raise it.

The First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company record and a feasibility study

Dental office at First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company leads off with a look at demand. Then, a study of Medical office (physicians) should check development cost, with 65 such loans on First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company's record. Then comes debt service coverage: First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company shows $1.18 billion across 1,361 loans, and the coverage test belongs to the project itself. To close comes the appraisal, which no count of 55 Full-service restaurant loans at First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company makes unnecessary. An applicant in California can compare with 269 loans in the First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company record, and one in North Carolina, 185. First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company alone can say what it requires. No figure implies approval, and First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company sets its own terms.

SBA loans held by First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company

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 FY20261,361
Gross dollars approved$1.18 billion
SBA 7(a) loans1,361
SBA 504 loans0

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)7.8%
The same, counting loans still undisbursed as cancelled (a ceiling)7.8%
Charged off to date, FY2017 to FY2021 disbursed loans (a floor)3.3%
Charged off within five years of approval1.8%
Loans in that cohort676

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 classes889
Dental office113
Medical office (physicians)65
Full-service restaurant55
Limited-service restaurant36
Child care center32
Veterinary clinic27
Automotive mechanical repair (car and truck)26
Rehabilitation and therapy clinic20
Fitness center18
Coffee shop and snack bar17
Assisted living (without nursing care)12
Beverage manufacturing (breweries, wineries, distilleries)6
Beauty salon6
Gas station and truck stop5
Hotel and motel5

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-11063.

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