Uniondale, N.Y.-based Flushing Bank has joined the Small Business Loan Program, hoping to expand the bank's lending efforts for small businesses.

Small Business Loan Program is a financial technology platform developed by community-bank platform BancAlliance and Fundation Group LLC, which is a digitally enabled lender and credit solutions provider to banks. Small Business Loan Program allows for better underwriting for small business lending by streamlining the borrowing process.

Flushing Bank is a unit of Flushing Financial Corp.