# Live Oak Bank > Live Oak Bank (Live Oak Banking Company) is a digital, branchless, North > Carolina state-chartered commercial bank headquartered in Wilmington, NC, and > the primary subsidiary of Live Oak Bancshares, Inc. (NYSE: LOB). It is the > largest originator of U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) 7(a) loans in > the country, serving small businesses in all 50 states with SBA and commercial > lending, high-yield business/personal savings, CDs, and business checking with > treasury services. In 2024 it launched an in-house embedded-banking / > Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) program on a cloud-native Finxact (Fiserv) core. > Its API surface is real but partner-gated: a production AWS API gateway runs at > api.liveoak.bank, but there is no public self-serve developer portal, no > downloadable OpenAPI/Swagger, and no public API reference. ## API surface - No public API contract. The production gateway at https://api.liveoak.bank returns MissingAuthenticationToken/403 to unauthenticated callers and uses Live-Oak-specific lob-identity-id / lob-foreign-entity-id headers. Access is partner-gated via the embedded-banking / BaaS program (contact sales). ## Company - Website: https://www.liveoak.bank/ - Our Story: https://www.liveoak.bank/our-story/ - Business banking: https://www.liveoak.bank/business/ - Business loans (SBA): https://www.liveoak.bank/business-loans/sba-loans/ - Business checking + treasury: https://www.liveoak.bank/business-checking/ - Get started (open account): https://www.liveoak.bank/get-started/ - Contact: https://www.liveoak.bank/contact-us/ ## Docs - Support: https://support.liveoak.bank/ - Blog: https://resources.liveoak.bank/blog - Online Privacy Notice: https://www.liveoak.bank/online-privacy-notice/ - Privacy & Security: https://www.liveoak.bank/privacy-security/ ## Optional - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/live-oak-bank - GitHub (no public repos): https://github.com/liveoakbank - Parent (NYSE: LOB): https://investor.liveoakbank.com/