Huntington National Bank is the nation’s top small-business lender.
The Columbus-based bank closed out its 2018 fiscal year with a 13.8 percent increase in Small Business Administration 7(a) loan originations. In all, the bank made 4,629 loans totaling $826.3 million.
That puts Huntington in first place nationwide for the number of loans and third for total loan volume.
This is the 10th consecutive year the bank has been the nation’s busiest originator of SBA 7(a) loans.
