Businesses wait for word, money after applying for SBA loans

[ ] [Image]( EMAIL}/redirect Greetings Subscribers, Posted on Monday, April 6th, 2020 By Joyce M. Rosenberg And Ken Sweet, AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Small business owners hoping for quick loans from the government were in a holding pattern Monday — waiting on their bank to either take their application or, if it did, send them the money. Business owners began submitting applications to banks, credit unions and other financial institutions late last week, or at least trying to. If successful, owners received notifications that their applications had been received, but for many, there was no further word by Monday afternoon. Two of the nation's largest banks, J.P. Morgan Chase and Citibank, aren't yet set up to take applications. That leaves their small business customers to worry that the $349 billion the government has budgeted for the relief loans will run out before they can apply. Lori Ames emailed Chase on Friday, the first day applications were being accepted for what’s called the Paycheck Protection Program, part of the government’s $2 trillion coronarvirus rescue plan. She was still waiting Monday for an opportunity to apply. “In the meantime I’ve filed my application via (online loan marketplace) Lendio because at the rate Chase is going, by the time they accept applications the allocated money could be gone,” says Ames, owner of The PR Freelancer, a publicity firm located in Babylon, New York. The loans are being approved and guaranteed by the Small Business Administration. While the agency released loan application statistics throughout the day Friday, it did not do so Monday; when asked for the reason, the agency did not immediately respond. Banking industry officials have said the slowdown in getting funds to customers has mostly been on the SBA’s side, although they said the government was making progress. SBA Administrator Jovita Carranza tweeted Monday afternoon that Bitty & Beaus Coffee, a Wilmington, North Carolina-based coffee shop chain, had received loan money. But many other owners were waiting. EMAIL}/redirect --------------------------------------------------------------- EMAIL}/redirect Huntington Bank, the largest SBA lender by volume, said it got 16,000 applications for loans over the weekend. The bank did 35,000 applications for SBA loans in 2019, said bank CEO Steve Steinour. “It’s been a tsunami of applications,” Steinour said. While there's been a flood of applications, funds have yet to get to most businesses. Huntington expects to be able to fund the loans and disburse the proceeds to businesses Monday night or Tuesday morning. Tanya Rutner Hartman applied over the phone with Huntington for a loan for her company, Gilded Social, a retailer of formal wear and bridesmaids’ dresses in Columbus, Ohio. She was still waiting on a promised call from an underwriter Monday afternoon. Hartman is keeping her two staffers on the payroll although her business is closed. She has enough cash for another 2 1/2 weeks, but is hoping to get the loan money much sooner. “So long as it comes through, I’m going to be OK. I’m trying to not panic until I have to panic,” she said. Karen Kerrigan, president of the advocacy group Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, said small businesses and bankers still have too many questions about the lending process. EMAIL}/redirect --------------------------------------------------------------- EMAIL}/redirect “We know there are limitations to government, and that the program was executed very quickly. Hopefully the friction and problems with the system and rules will get worked out,” she said. Another big bank had its own unique issue. Wells Fargo said it did $10 billion in loan applications over the weekend __ and it's maxed out. Wells is under lending restraints from the Federal Reserve after a series of scandals — it has been fined $3 billion so far for opening about 3 million accounts without customers' approval. So, many owners who applied for loans through Wells were disappointed. The Fed announced a program Monday that will allow banks to sell the SBA loans on their balance sheet to the Fed, hopefully freeing up additional funds for banks to keep making additional loans. This should allow Wells Fargo, one of the largest SBA lenders, to make more loans. The Fed said plans to announce details of its own lending program for small businesses this week. The paycheck protection loans are separate from economic injury disaster loans the SBA is processing. Many owners are still waiting for those loans, which have more requirements and can take several weeks to process. Under the government's rescue package, a company that gets a paycheck loan cannot use a disaster loan to cover its payroll. Some owners could take the delays in stride. Steve Sherman is running his lighting fixtures manufacturing company in Sandwich, Massachusetts, on his own at reduced hours after laying off four employees, including a son and a nephew, on March 23. He is hoping for a loan of around $25,000 to eventually bring them back. His bank, Santander, told him Friday that a system “wasn’t up and running yet.” Now, the earliest he can apply is Wednesday, the bank says. “I guess they want to make sure they do this right, ducks in the row or whatever you want to call it," Sherman says. Other owners were frustrated with the conditions the banks put on loans. A number of banks were demanding owners be established customers, with deposit accounts and loans in order to apply. That prevented many from applying. Paul Hollowell was turned down by three separate banks Friday because he didn't have the right combination of accounts. Finally, an officer at BBVA, where he has a loan, opened a closed branch so Hollowell could open a deposit account and apply for a loan. Hollowell owns Lux, a company with two tanning salons and 16 employees in Dallas. He’s had to close down and has no revenue coming in, and is waiting to hear about when he'll receive the money. “It was definitely a full 24 hours of phone calls and frantic emails,” he said. ___ Michael Casey in Concord, New Hampshire, contributed. EMAIL}/redirect --------------------------------------------------------------- EMAIL}/redirect To get EXCLUSIVE OFFERS make sure you grab your cellphone (which you are probably doing right now) and join our VIP text messaging list (standard text and messaging rates may apply)to make it even easier, if you are on your cell phone now click this Button Below: [SIGN ME UP NOW]( © 2020 PTE.la PTE, LLC (publisher of PTE.la) is NOT registered as an investment adviser nor a broker/dealer with either the U. S. 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