NewtekOne, Inc. Announces Record Loan Closings for the Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023

BOCA RATON, Fla., Jan. 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NewtekOne, Inc. (the “Company” or “NewtekOne”) (NASDAQ:NEWT), announced today that its nationally chartered bank subsidiary, Newtek Bank, N.A., closed a record $262.9 million of SBA 7(a) loans for the three months ended December 31, 2023, which represents a new quarterly record for the Company, and a 20.6% increase over the previous quarterly record of $218.0 million SBA 7(a) loans closed for the three months ended September 30, 2023. In addition, NewtekOne, through Newtek Small Business Finance and Newtek Bank, closed a record $828.1 million of SBA 7(a) loans for the twelve months ended December 31, 2023, a new annual record for the Company, and a 7.3% increase over $771.9 million of SBA 7(a) loans closed for the twelve months ended December 31, 2022. Newtek Bank currently expects to close $175 million to $200 million of SBA 7(a) loans in the first quarter of 2024, which would represent a 23% increase, at the midpoint of the range, from $152.5 million of SBA 7(a) loans closed in the first quarter 2023. Newtek Bank and the Company’s non-bank subsidiaries, closed a record $1.1 billion of loans, across all loan products, for the twelve months ended December 31, 2023, compared to $911.5 million for the same period in 2022.

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