The Puerto Rico office of the U.S. Small Business Administration and the Puerto Rico Professional College of Engineers and Land Surveyors will cosponsor on May 8, the Annual Business Matchmaking Event both organizations have conducted jointly for the past eight years.
In line with its renewed service platform launched earlier this month to meet the needs of small and medium businesses, FirstBank and the Small Business Administration announced Monday the first closing under the agency’s pilot 504 loan refinancing program to Coamo Golf Bakery for $173,098.
The U.S. Small Business Administration approved 264 loans in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands during the first six months of fiscal year 2012, a 13 percent increase over loans approved during the same period the previous year, the agency said Thursday.