The days of faxing in mountains of documents and face-to-face meetings with lending officers may be coming to an end.

That's one of the predictions SBA Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet shared during a Wednesday morning online session titled the "Future of Lending," which was presented by Washington newspaper Politico and the Independent Community Bankers of America.

A growing number of small business owners are more nimble with technology and often expect others they work with, including government agencies such as the SBA, to be just as deft, Contreras-Sweet said during the session attended by CU Times.

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