Talk:Small Business Administration

SBA loans
EQ 17:41, 21 July 2007 (UTC) Over 80% of SBA's loans are for homeowners and renters. These loans are handled through the office of Disaster Assistance (ODA). This is the office that received criticism for its slow response in the aftermath of the Katrina and Rita Hurricanes in the Gulf Coast. I added some information about it to the SBA's page but more should be done to describe its history (which is different from SBA's) the types of loans available, and possibly the requirements and process. Should all of this even go in the same SBA page or a new one just for ODA?

= bizarre section moved from article =

The below I edited first to remove the brands, then on second thought removed. It is really a rant about the subprime mortgage crisis (or really about a related security) put into a kind of scenario that is at least WP:Original Research or possibly just "go put this in your blog". I agree that the subprime stuff was bad...but I don't know that it deserves a place in every article even barely remotely related. If someone wants to turn it into a referenced section based more on facts and not original research...they have it below.Reboot (talk) 03:52, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

SBA secondary markets
The primary reason that SBA loans are so profitable to banks is that the SBA has created an infrastructure whereby the portions of 7(a) loans guaranteed by the agency can be transformed into AAA rated government bonds. The entity created for this purpose is known as "Colson Securities Corp." An illustration of this is as follows:


 * 1) A bank makes a 1 million dollar loan for a person to buy a franchised gas station using the 7(a) program
 * 2) The interest rate charged is the prime rate + 2.75%
 * 3) The SBA guarantees 75% of the loan (in this case 750 thousand), so that if the borrower doesn't repay and even if the property can't be sold for anything, the lender would get back 75% of their funds
 * 4) The lender can sell the guaranteed part of the loan as bonds using intermediary. Since the interest rate for risk free bonds can be as much as 5 percent less then the loan interest rate, the bank can effectively keep the difference by selling the loan for 825 thousand, and is also able to skim about 0.25 to 1 percent of the annual interest payments on this portion, so that the bond buyers essentially get paid the same interest rates as other risk free bonds. Thus the bank keeps 75 thousand and earns some residual interest.
 * 5) The bank is left with 250 thousand at risk. If the borrower fails, the bank keeps 25% on a pro-rata basis of what the bank can collect from selling the property. Thus the annual ongoing interest earned on its 250 thousand is about prime + 4% (because of the skim) and the bank keeps the upfront gain on the sale of the guaranteed portion, representing an earning of almost 30% on the 250 thousand at risk. In addition, the bank can sell this portion of the loan to another bank in order to have no money at risk.

After these developments, banks created operations for the first mortgage portions of SBA 504 loans to be bought and sold as bonds. While these bonds have no guarantee they are only likely to lose much money only if the value of the properties used as collateral declines more than 50 percent. Usually these loans are sold at a 4% premium, primarily to the same banks that also purchase sba 7(a) ungauranteed portions.

Recently however the funds earned from selling loans has decreased due to both the subprime mortgage crisis causing upsets in the bond market, as well as the fact that it appears SBA loans are being paid off more quickly then normal.

Request to add Deputy Administrator as agency executive
Hi, I work on the communications team for the U.S. Small Business Administration and would like request that SBA Deputy Administrator Douglas J. Kramer be added as an officer to the page. His position is Senate-confirmed and including his name would be consistent with the treatment for other Cabinet-level executives overseeing agencies of the U.S. Government (see: https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/cabinet; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Economic_Advisers; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_the_United_States_Trade_Representative#List_of_United_States_Trade_Representatives).

I would also like to request a page be created for the Deputy Administrator. For convenience, here is a link to the Deputy Administrator's bio on the official SBA website: https://www.sba.gov/content/douglas-j-kramer.

I would be happy to provide additional independent references and background as needed. Thank you!

Shwaver (talk) 00:27, 9 April 2016 (UTC)Matt Sonneborn, Deputy Associate Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration (https://www.sba.gov/about-sba/sba-team/sba-leadership) - matthew.sonneborn[at]sba.gov

SBA 8(M) classification
Need your input at Talk:Woman owned business regarding whether to add something about 8(M) classification or the more general program. Thanks. AngusWOOF ( bark  •  sniff ) 15:43, 3 December 2019 (UTC)