Treasury Set to Buy SBA Loans With $15 Billion in Bailout Funds –July 23, 2009
The Treasury Department is finalizing a $15 billion initiative to stimulate lending by the Small Business Administration by using funds from the federal bailout program to buy up SBA loans. After private investors grew reluctant last year about buying SBA loans from the firms that finance them, these firms found themselves weighed down with old loans, which prevented them from funding new loans for small businesses.