Huntington receives top lender title

COLUMBUS

Huntington Bank has been ranked the top lender by dollar among banks in the State Small Business Credit Initiative administered by the U.S. Department of Treasury.

Small business owners in select states in the bank’s footprint, including Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio, received $72 million in financing from Huntington through SSBCI since the initiative’s inception in 2011.

The ranking appears in the Treasury Department SSBCI Summary of the States’ 2013 Annual Report released last month.

Huntington was recently named the nation’s largest lender in the number of loans for the Small Business Administration in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2014.

The bank made 4,138 SBA loans in its six-state footprint.