JP Morgan Chase Turns Its Back on Small Business Clients

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Jens Rosmus

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Answered on May 2nd, 2020

I must say that I was treated the same way by Wells Fargo. I am a new business owner and was one of the first to apply that Saturday morning when WF finally opened their online tool. A fellow franchisee who has been in business for over two years and applied with WF roughly three hours later than me, already had his loan the following Tuesday. I didn't receive any funding in the first round, nor the second through WF. Luckily, I turned to a small local bank and have attained an ETRAN number from the SBA. Shame on Wells Fargo and the other large banks. I have started transitioning my banking to locally-owned banks, such as QNB and Univest and hope others will follow and show these mega banks that the customer is king and we small businesses have made a choice.

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I am happy you are moving.
May 5th, 2020
Every time I start banking with a nice local and small bank they get eaten by a bigger bank. And I'm back to square one.
I had to add one more update to this conversation - I finally heard back from Wells Fargo telling me that my application with them to the SBA for the PPP was declined (I received my PPP funding from another local bank). It took WF from April 4 to May 21 to process my application with the SBA - WOW!!! (I was one of the first 21,000 applicants per my application number)
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