# OakStar Bank (SBA lending)

Missouri's number one book, barely marketed.

The number one change-of-ownership book in Missouri in the FOIA loan file, 78 loans across six years with nearly twice the next bank's count, plus a Kansas seat with 16. It is a Preferred Lender whose loans page names business acquisition among uses and keeps approval in the building. Branches run across Missouri, Kansas, and Colorado, and terms are unpublished.

- Category: SBA & Acquisition Lenders
- Pricing model: Custom Pricing
- Where it fits: Set Up & Fund the Search, Diligence & Close the Deal
- Website: https://www.oakstarbank.com/business/business-loans

## At a Glance

The state-champion class in one row: the biggest acquisition book in Missouri belongs to a bank that barely markets it. If your deal sits in its three states, put it beside the national names and make the officer state the terms its page does not.

## What It Costs

Loan products; no fee to engage. Its loans page publishes no sizes, rates, or down payments; what it does state is status and process, a Preferred SBA Lender granted the highest level of independence the SBA offers, so approval stays in the building rather than at an SBA office. The FOIA loan file places it first in Missouri's change-of-ownership top five with 78 loans and on Kansas's table with 16 across the file's six years, in states whose median acquisition loan runs in the mid $500ks.

## Best For

Buyers in Missouri and Kansas who want the state's deepest acquisition book and will trade published terms for a local desk with in-house approval

## Pros and Cons

- Pro: First in Missouri's [change-of-ownership](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/change-of-ownership) top five in the FOIA loan file, with nearly twice the loans of the next bank
- Pro: A Preferred SBA Lender by its own page, granted the highest level of independence the SBA offers, so approval stays in-house
- Pro: Names business acquisition among loan uses on its own page, which many regional loan pages never say
- Pro: A Kansas seat too, 16 loans on that state's table in the same file
- Con: Publishes no terms at all: no sizes, rates, down payments, or timelines on any page of its own site
- Con: Branches sit in Missouri, Kansas, and Colorado and the page states no lending area beyond them, so wider reach is a question for the officer
- 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
- Con: The SBA story lives inside a general business-loans page rather than a dedicated desk, so expect a generalist intake

## What Searchers Say

The [Preferred Lender](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/preferred-lender-program) status, the highest-independence claim, the business-acquisition use, and the three-state branch footprint are its own pages'. The FOIA loan file independently places it first in Missouri's change-of-ownership top five with 78 loans and on Kansas's table with 16 across the file's six years. Its district-level SBA leadership has trade-press coverage; the government file is the firmer source.

## Compared With

- Missouri's biggest book, or the desk for the harder file? (https://searchspheresource.com/resources/compare/oakstar-bank-vs-midwest-regional-bank.md)

## Sources

- https://www.oakstarbank.com/business/business-loans
- https://searchspheresource.com/data/acquisition-lending

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Last checked: 2026-08-08

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