&gt;&quot;About 80% of small business loan applications in the US are denied.&quot;<p>Wow, I thought 80% was an overstatement. You are very much correct with regards to the &quot;big&quot; banks.<p>See: &quot;big banks – that is, banks with $10 billion or more in assets – approved of 21.3 percent of small business loan applications in January 2015, up from 21.1 percent the month prior&quot; [0]<p>Not the world&#x27;s greatest source, but informative none the less:
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