Data on banks’ small loans to businesses are widely used to proxy for bank loans to small businesses because data on the latter are not collected. 2  BIS central bankers’ speeches  banks grew from 42 percent in 2005 to 67 percent in 2015.
In contrast, large banks’ share of larger outstanding small loans to businesses – those with initial principal amounts between $ and $ million – grew much more modestly, from 39 percent to 43 percent, over the same time period.