SBADecoded
Home / Lenders / Valley National Bank

Lender · SBA 7(a) record

Valley National Bank

NJ · lends in 10 states · 548 SBA loans since 2010, 191 in the last five years.

Smallest loan they do
$179k
5th percentile, last 5 years
Typical loan
$689k
median, last 5 years
Typical rate
P+2.07
variable-rate loans only
Typical term
10 yr
Recent volume
$223.5M
last 5 fiscal years

Will they talk to you?

loan sizes funded
Under $150k
4%
$150k – $350k
19%
$350k – $750k
30%
$750k – $2M
31%
Over $2M
15%

The spread of loan sizes tells you where this lender is comfortable. Ask for something far outside it and expect friction.

Do they fund businesses like yours?

last 5 years
Full-Service Restaurants
12%
Limited-Service Restaurants
7%
Snack and Nonalcoholic Beverage Bars
6%
Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers
4%
Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring Installation Contractors
4%
Everything else
68%

A lender who already knows your industry asks better questions and closes faster. One who doesn't will treat your file as an education.

Lends conservatively

0.00% charged off against 2.11% across all SBA lending. Clean books usually mean tight credit standards. Good rates if you fit their box, and a quick decline if you don't.

What rate people got

average markup over prime

Borrowers here averaged prime + 2.07%. Compare that against what you have been quoted — the markup is the negotiable part, and most borrowers never try.

Work out what that costs you →

Their loans, year by year

cumulative % of dollars charged off
ApprovedYr 1Yr 2Yr 3Yr 4Yr 5Yr 6Yr 7Yr 8Yr 9Yr 10
20130.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
20140.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
20150.00.00.00.00.00.00.05.87.97.9
20160.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0·
20170.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0··
20180.00.00.00.00.02.62.6···
20190.00.00.00.00.00.0····
20210.00.00.00.0······
20220.00.00.0·······
20230.00.0········
20240.0·········
2025··········
2026··········
0%
12%+▨ too recent to know

Each row is one year's lending. Read down a column to compare years at the same age — that is the only fair comparison, because losses take three to five years to appear and a fast-growing lender always looks clean on a raw average.

Source SBA 7(a) FOIAReleased 2026-06-30 Loans judged 321 Measured at 5 years

What this page cannot tell you

Federal records show what was approved, not how long it took, how the bank communicated, or whether your loan officer returned calls. Ask any lender directly: are you a preferred lender, how many deals like mine did you close last year, and who underwrites it.

Check your eligibility first → Decode what they say to you →

Lenders worth comparing against this one

Picked for writing loans of a similar size in similar places — not for paying us, because nobody does.