BayFirst names loan production star president of SBA unit

St. Petersburg-based BayFirst promoted Christopher Hackney to president of lending for Small Business Administration and U.S. Department of Agriculture within the bank's government-guaranteed lending division, known nationally as CreditBench, the bank says in a news release.

The bank says it is the No. 1 SBA lender in the Tampa Bay area and the nation's second-largest small business lender based on units. It has with $1.1 billion in assets, according to Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. data.

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