Primary Bank: SBA Lending Record

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

Primary Bank: loans and programs

Primary Bank stands at 273 approved loans and $104.1 million gross, FY2017 to FY2026. Primary Bank does not guarantee these 273 loans; SBA does. The figures for Primary Bank are loan records only. SBA records Primary Bank as holding, or having held, these 273 loans. All 273 loans at Primary Bank are 7(a); 0 are 504. NH is the lender state SBA records for Primary Bank.

Asset classes and states in the Primary Bank book

The tracked classes leave 189 of Primary Bank's 273 loans uncovered. Among followed classes, Primary Bank stands thus: Limited-service restaurant (25), Full-service restaurant (18), Fitness center (7), Beverage manufacturing (breweries, wineries, distilleries) (5), Beauty salon (5). A buyer planning Limited-service restaurant can see 25 loans on the record of Primary Bank. Primary Bank shows 18 loans in Full-service restaurant, the next class. Fitness center comes third at Primary Bank, with 7 loans. Massachusetts ranks second among states for Primary Bank, at 21 loans. The state column for Primary Bank opens New Hampshire (246), Massachusetts (21). SBA records the lender state as NH, and the largest state by loans is New Hampshire.

What SBA records on outcomes for Primary Bank

For Primary Bank approvals from FY2017 to FY2024, 15.6% are known cancelled, a floor. Loan Analytics withholds the ceiling under the rule of fewer than 30 loans, and with 15.6% as the only figure, the gap above it is not zero. Primary Bank has 273 loans in all, yet too few were disbursed in FY2017 to FY2021 to print a charge-off floor, and no number stands in for it. These are minimum rates for Primary Bank, and further losses in the cohort can only raise it.

Using the Primary Bank record in a study

A study for Limited-service restaurant taken to Primary Bank must test demand first. A study of Full-service restaurant also weighs development cost; Primary Bank shows 18 loans in that class. Debt service coverage is third, and $104.1 million across 273 loans at Primary Bank never decides that for any one project. The appraisal is a separate step, since 7 Fitness center loans at Primary Bank cannot displace it. A borrower in New Hampshire can compare with 246 loans in the Primary Bank record, and one in Massachusetts, 21. Primary Bank alone decides what it expects. No figure guarantees approval, and Primary Bank sets its own terms.

SBA loans held by Primary 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 FY2026273
Gross dollars approved$104.1 million
SBA 7(a) loans273
SBA 504 loans0

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)15.6%
The same, counting loans still undisbursed as cancelled (a ceiling)withheld
Charged off to date, FY2017 to FY2021 disbursed loans (a floor)withheld

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 classes189
Limited-service restaurant25
Full-service restaurant18
Fitness center7
Beverage manufacturing (breweries, wineries, distilleries)5
Beauty salon5

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

Loans by project state

State or areaLoans
New Hampshire246
Massachusetts21

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-59086.

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