Small and mid-sized financial institutions devote a greater share of their assets to small business lending. Small banks, in fact, lend about eight times as much to small businesses as the giant banks do as a portion of their assets. For more detail on why small banks do so much more small business lending, see our article, “Understanding the Small Business Credit Crunch.”
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