Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Article on SBA 504 Loan Program

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency was created by Congress to charter national banks, to oversee a nationwide system of banking institutions, and to assure that national banks are safe and sound, competitive and profitable, and capable of serving in the best possible manner the banking needs of their customers.

This article [1] appeared in the May 2010 issue of the OCC's publication "Insights" and is an update of the article originally published in February 2006.  It provides an excellent overview of the SBA 504 Loan Program, "Small Businesses' Window to Wall Street."