The No. 1 credit union SBA lender is hanging out the help wanted sign
Six years ago, when America First Credit Union in Salt Lake City decided to move into Small Business Administration lending, CEO John Lund gave his team simple instructions. "He told us to be No. 1," Blake Weathers, America First's senior vice president of commercial lending recalled. America First Credit Union in Salt Lake City is angling to grow its 7(a) lending business by hiring additional loan officers. The $19.1 billion-asset America First responded. Its volume of loans closed under the 7(a) loan guarantee program — SBA's largest program — jumped from $2.1 million in the agency's 2017 fiscal…
