Banks Pledge Increase in Small Business Lending

$20 billion over the next 3 years

On Tuesday in Cleveland Ohio, Vice President Joe Biden announced a partnership between 13 banks to increase small business lending over the next three years.

The 13 banks have committed to a combined $20 billion increase to small business lending.  The largest player in the pledge is Citigroup, who said that they plan to loan small businesses $8 billion next year – up from $6 billion in loans they made last year and $4.5 billion they made in 2009.
 

Is this enough of a pledge to get small businesses growing again?  Let us know in the comments

The 13 banks involved in the announcement are:

Wells Fargo
Key Corp
Regions Financial Corporation
Huntington Bancshares Incorporated
M&T Bank Corporation
JP Morgan Chase & Company
Citizens Financial Group, Inc.
Citigroup
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
TD Bank
US Bank
PNC Bank
Sun Trust Banks, Inc.

Small Business Administrator Karen Mills had this to say about the announcement -

We know that many small businesses, particularly in traditionally underserved communities, still face challenges in accessing the capital they need to buy inventory, take on that next new order and hire new workers.  These commitments by our lending partners leverage both commercial and government programs that work and will provide billions of capital to help small businesses all across the country grow and create jobs, and drive local economic growth.

Vice President Biden, speaking to a small business in Ohio, referenced the recently unveiled American Jobs Act  -

Small businesses like Wrap Tite are the real engines of our economy, which is why Congress should cut their taxes and put money back in the pockets of their customers by passing the American Jobs Act right away.  The only way we’re going to turn the vicious economic cycle we’ve been in into a virtuous one is by cutting taxes on our small businesses and making sure they can get the loans they need to grow and hire more workers.

Could this increase in loans to small business spur job growth and spur the economy forward?  Let us know in the comments.

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  1. Hi Chris

    With regards to the below the vast majority of problems facing the UK is due to the cuts and decisions made by the clowns in parliament at present, who Claim everybody is to blame but themselves for the dire shape of the economy at present. They have made record numbers unemployed or redundant due to companies trying to save money therefore it is cheaper to let staff go.Our Armed Forces and national health service are also taking a massive hit also in these cuts. With regards to the banks willing to lend more capital in order for small businesses to get started it will not change much. they should be more willing to support current companies and staff who have financial issues, due to this recession. They are making the problem worse by making thousands of people unemployed myself included, which are then reliant on state benefits until they find a job, which the competition to find a place even in poorly paid jobs has gone up 200%.They should turn this country in to a attractive prospect for business and foreign traders. rather than make so many restrictions and financial issues prospective companies will go abroad where it is easier and cheaper for them to set up and run a business.This country should be attracting people and companies from around the world as it is a great place to live and work. but the people in power are doing the exact opposite a large percentage of our skilled workforce are going and working abroad as appart from the fact they get paid more, they have a level of job security, which unless you are a politician this country no longer has.

  2. This is really what our country needs. As a small business owner, I have personally experienced small business credit lending decline sharply for the past few years. The bank bailouts were meant to free up the banks and allow more lending to consumers and small business but the banks just tightened up and reduced lending holding onto the money and disbursing it to execs. Hopefully this will help to spur some much needed economic rebound.

  3. Many of the banks on the list are “too big to fail” and the reason small businesses are in trouble in the first place, since they trashed our economy, encouraged liar loans, foreclosed illegally in many cases and engaged in other predatory lending practices. Many small businesses and individuals have closed accounts at these banks in favor of smaller community banks and credit unions.

    M&T is infamous for helping put Scott Walker into the governor’s chair in Wisconsin, causing many police, firefighters and teachers to withdraw their accounts from M&T.

    In other words, this announcement is like putting a cyanide soaked band-aid on an aortal Hemorrhage.

  4. Guest

    by these Banks just to make themselves look good.

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  6. The announcement comes paired with recent efforts by the SBA to further small-business lending in order to spur job growth and economic recovery. The funds will be made available to small-business owners through traditional credit lines and loans.

  7. It’s possible that banks are pledging to increase lending over the next few years since SBA loans are guaranteed against default by the federal government, which brokers say gives lenders a little extra breathing room in a down economy.

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