# Fulton Bank (SBA lending)

The SBA director wrote the buyer's guide himself.

A mid-Atlantic Preferred Lender whose Director of SBA Lending signs a real acquisition guide. It names the 10% injection floor, up to half of it from a subordinated seller note on deferred payments, a current rate context, and no-balloon amortization, with the program table published beside it, 7(a) to $5 million and the small-loan and Express bands stated.

- Category: SBA & Acquisition Lenders
- Pricing model: Custom Pricing
- Where it fits: Set Up & Fund the Search, Diligence & Close the Deal
- Website: https://www.fultonbank.com/Small-Business/Borrowing/SBA-Loans

## At a Glance

The rare desk whose SBA director writes the acquisition mechanics down before you ever call: injection floor, [seller-note](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/seller-note) half, rate band. The book in our file is modest, so treat it as the mid-Atlantic conversation where the structure arrives already agreed on paper.

## What It Costs

Loan products; no fee to engage. The program table publishes sizes and terms, the 7(a) to $5 million up to 15 years, the small loan to $350,000 at 7 to 25 years, Express from $50,000 to $350,000; no down payments or rates on the product page. The director-signed acquisition guide states what the table does not: a 10% minimum injection, up to half of it from a subordinated seller note on deferred payments, and an early-2026 rate context of 9.75% to 14.75% depending on size, term, and profile. The FOIA loan file places it fifth in Maryland's and fifth in Delaware's change-of-ownership top fives across the file's six years, 25 loans across the two.

## Best For

Mid-Atlantic buyers who want a [Preferred Lender](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/preferred-lender-program) whose SBA desk explains acquisition structure under its own name before the first call

## Pros and Cons

- Pro: Its Director of SBA Lending signs a dated acquisition guide stating the 10% injection floor and the seller-note-for-half structure, depth almost no regional publishes
- Pro: The program table is published: [7(a)](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/sba-7a) to $5 million and 15 years, the small loan and Express bands beside it
- Pro: States it meets all Preferred Lender Program eligibility requirements, and names business acquisition first among uses
- Pro: The guide's rate context, 9.75% to 14.75% in early 2026, is more candor than most product pages ever show
- Con: A modest [change-of-ownership](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/change-of-ownership) book in the FOIA loan file, 25 loans across two fifth-place seats, Maryland and Delaware
- Con: The concrete figures live in the education center, educational copy rather than a product commitment
- Con: Its own pages publish no lending-area list, so reach is a question for the officer despite third-party five-state descriptions
- Con: No Searchfunder or Reddit thread discusses the lender, so there is no practitioner account of how it handles a [search-fund](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/search-fund) file

## What Searchers Say

The Preferred Lender eligibility line, the program table, and the acquisition use are its product page's; the injection floor, seller-note structure, and rate context are its own education center's, signed by its Director of SBA Lending. The FOIA loan file independently places it fifth in Maryland and fifth in Delaware across the file's six years. Third-party descriptions of a five-state footprint exist; its own pages state no lending-area list, so the reach is unstated at source.

## Sources

- https://www.fultonbank.com/Small-Business/Borrowing/SBA-Loans
- https://www.fultonbank.com/Education-Center/Commercial-Financial-Strategies/Acquire-with-Confidence
- https://searchspheresource.com/data/acquisition-lending

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Last checked: 2026-08-08

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