Small business lending

Efforts to repeal a Dodd-Frank mandate for lenders to report data on small-business applicants — including race and ethnicity — overlook the benefits of the provision to both communities of color and banks.

CircleUp is offering lines of credit to early-stage consumer brands, which can often only get financing at high interest rates.

Small-business customers of Bank of America can now apply for credit through the bank’s digital channels.

First Home Bank raised nearly 20% more than it sought from investors, providing proof that Florida — especially the Tampa Bay area — is a hotbed of activity.

The Pittsburgh bank is developing new products, simplifying old ones and modernizing its workplace based on detailed feedback from consumers, small businesses and employees in an attempt to create a bank they all like better.

The subprime business lender halted new business and laid off scores of employees after recording higher-than-expected losses.

Green Bancorp has pivoted from the troubled energy-lending market to SBA loans, which are appealing to more small banks because they can be sold at a premium and are getting more support from Washington.

The addition of Sean Glithero as CFO is one of several new hires by the online small-business lender.

The online small-business lender has also announced the hiring of a new U.S. head of capital markets.

A headquarters move to Boston, a core system with plenty of headroom and a CEO who admires big acquirers like M&T and the old Banknorth: All the signs are there of an ambitious bank with a plan.