| KeyBank announced recently that it has provided more than $1 billion in capital to qualified women-owned businesses through its Key4Women program, surpassing its 2005 pledge to lend $1 billion to women-owned firms by February of 2008. Having exceeded its goal nearly a year ahead of schedule, KeyBank also announced that it will continue to support the accelerated success of women-owned businesses by pledging another $2 billion in capital for this group during the next five years.
As one of the nation’s largest financial services companies and top small business lenders, Key already provides financial services to nearly 85,000 women-owned businesses in 13 states. Between February 2005 and March 2007, the bank loaned nearly $61 million to women business owners in Tacoma and South Puget Sound.
KeyBank has eight branches on the Kitsap Peninsula. |
