CLASS A CERTIFICATE
NUMBER R-002

THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), OR UNDER ANY STATE SECURITIES OR
BLUE SKY LAW OF ANY STATE. THE HOLDER HEREOF, BY PURCHASING THIS CERTIFICATE,
AGREES THAT THIS CERTIFICATE MAY BE REOFFERED, RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE
TRANSFERRED ONLY IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND OTHER APPLICABLE LAWS
AND ONLY (1) IN CERTIFICATED FORM (A) PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT ("RULE 144A") TO A PERSON THAT THE HOLDER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A (A "QIB"), PURCHASING FOR
ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR A QIB PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QIB, WHOM THE HOLDER
HAS INFORMED, IN EACH CASE, THAT THE REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER
IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, OR (B) TO AN "INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED
INVESTOR" WITHIN THE MEANING THEREOF IN RULE 501(a)(1)-(3) OF REGULATION D UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT PURCHASING FOR INVESTMENT AND NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION IN
VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT, IN EACH CASE, SUBJECT TO (A) THE RECEIPT BY THE
TRUSTEE OF A LETTER SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE FORM PROVIDED IN THE AGREEMENT AND (B)
THE RECEIPT BY THE TRUSTEE OF SUCH OTHER EVIDENCE ACCEPTABLE TO THE TRUSTEE THAT
SUCH REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE OR TRANSFER IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES
ACT AND OTHER APPLICABLE LAWS OR, IN EACH CASE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ALL
APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND SECURITIES AND BLUE SKY LAWS
OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES AND ANY OTHER APPLICABLE JURISDICTION, (2)
PURSUANT TO ANOTHER EXEMPTION AVAILABLE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN
ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, OR (3) PURSUANT TO A VALID
REGISTRATION STATEMENT.

THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT GUARANTEED OR INSURED BY ANY GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY OR
INSTRUMENTALITY OR BY ANY OTHER PERSON.
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BUSINESS LOAN CENTER SBA LOAN-BACKED ADJUSTABLE RATE CERTIFICATES

            Series 1997-1                 Original Class A Certificate

            Class A                       Principal Balance:

            No. R-002                     $18,078,507.20

                                          Original Dollar Amount as
                                           of the Cut-Off Date
                                           Represented by this
                                           Certificate:

                                          $4,000,00.00

            Remittance Rate:              Percentage Interest of
             Variable                      the Class A Certificates
                                           Evidenced by this
                                           Certificate: 22.1257206%

            Date of Pooling and           Servicer:
             Servicing Agreement           Business Loan Center, Inc.
             and Cut-Off Date:
             December 1, 1997

            First Remittance Date:        Latest Maturity Date:  March 15, 2023
             January 15, 1998
                                          CUSIP No.: 123280 AA7

            Closing Date:                 Trustee:
             December 19, 1997            Marine Midland Bank

            Business Loan Center, Inc. certifies that Banc One Capital
Corporation is the registered owner of a percentage interest (the "Percentage
Interest") in the Unguaranteed Interest in a pool of loans partially guaranteed
by the U.S. Small Business Administration (the "SBA Loans") and serviced by
Business Loan Center, Inc. (hereinafter called the "Servicer," in its capacity
as the Servicer, and the "Seller," in its capacity as the Seller, which terms
include any successor entity under the Agreement referred to below). The SBA
Loans were originated or purchased by the Seller. The SBA Loans will be serviced
pursuant to the terms and conditions of that certain Pooling and Servicing
Agreement dated as of December 1, 1997 (the "Agreement") between Marine Midland
Bank, as trustee (the "Trustee") and Business Loan Center, Inc., as Seller and
Servicer, certain of the pertinent provisions of which are set forth herein. To
the extent not defined herein, the capitalized terms used herein have the
meanings assigned in the Agreement. This Certificate is issued under and is
subject to the terms, provisions and 
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conditions of the Agreement, to which Agreement the holder of this Certificate
by virtue of the acceptance hereof assents and by which such holder is bound.

            On each Remittance Date, commencing on January 15, 1998, the Trustee
or Paying Agent shall distribute to the Person in whose name this Certificate is
registered at the close of business on the last day of the month next preceding
the month of such distribution (the "Record Date"), an amount equal to the
product of the Percentage Interest of the Class A Certificates evidenced by this
Certificate and the amount required to be distributed to Holders of Class A
Certificates on such Remittance Date pursuant to Section 6.07 of the Agreement.

            During the initial Interest Accrual Period, this Certificate will
bear interest at the rate of 6.60% per annum. During each subsequent Interest
Accrual Period, this Certificate will bear interest at a per annum rate equal to
the Prime Rate in effect on the preceding Adjustment Date minus 1.90% per annum,
subject to the limits described in the Agreement.

            Distributions on this Certificate will be made by the Trustee or
Paying Agent by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as
such name and address shall appear on the Certificate Register or, upon written
request to the Trustee, by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the
account of the Person entitled thereto as shall appear on the Certificate
Register without the presentation or surrender of this Certificate or the making
of any notation thereon, at a bank or other entity having appropriate facilities
therefor, and, in the case of wire transfers, at the expense of such Person
unless such Person shall own of record Certificates which have initial
Certificate Principal Balances aggregating at least $5,000,000.

            Notwithstanding the above, the final distribution on this
Certificate will be made after due notice by the Trustee of the pendency of such
distribution and only upon presentation and surrender of this Class A
Certificate at the office or agency maintained for that purpose by the
Certificate Registrar in New York, New York.

            This Certificate is one of a duly authorized issue of Certificates
designated as Business Loan Center SBA Loan-Backed Adjustable Rate Certificates,
Series 1997-1, Class A and Class B (herein called the "Certificates") and
representing undivided ownership in the right to receive the principal portion
of the Unguaranteed Interests of the SBA Loans together with interest thereon at
the then applicable Class A or Class B Remittance Rate, as the case may be.

            Neither the Certificates nor the SBA Loans represent an obligation
of, or an interest in, the Servicer and (except for the Excess Spread) are not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Small
Business Administration, the Government National Mortgage Association or the
Veterans Administration or any other governmental agency. The Certificates are
limited in right of payment to certain collections and recoveries respecting the
SBA Loans, all as more specifically set forth herein and in the Agreement. In
the event Servicer funds are advanced with respect to any SBA Loan, such advance
is reimbursable to the Servicer from late recoveries of interest on the SBA
Loans generally.
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            As provided in the Agreement, deposits and withdrawals from the
Certificate Account, the Spread Account and the Expense Account may be made by
the Trustee from time to time for purposes other than distributions to
Certificateholders, such purposes including reimbursement to the Servicer of
advances made, or certain expenses incurred, by it, and investment in Permitted
Instruments.

            Subject to certain restrictions, the Agreement permits the amendment
thereof with respect to certain modifications (a) by the Seller, the Servicer
and the Trustee without the consent of the Certificateholders and (b) by the
Seller, the Servicer and the Trustee with the consent of the Majority
Certificateholders. The Agreement permits the Majority Certificateholders to
waive, on behalf of all Certificateholders, any default by the Servicer in the
performance of its obligations under the Agreement and its consequences, except
in a default in making any required distribution on a Certificate. Any such
consent or waiver by the Majority Certificateholders shall be conclusive and
binding on the holder of this Certificate and upon all future holders of this
Certificate and of any Certificate issued upon the transfer hereof or in
exchange herefor or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent is
made upon this Certificate. The Agreement permits the Majority
Certificateholders to waive, on behalf of all Certificateholders, any default by
the Servicer in the performance of its obligations under the Agreement and its
consequences, except in a default in making any required distribution on a
Certificate. Any such consent or waiver by the Majority Certificateholders shall
be conclusive and binding on the holder of this Certificate and upon all future
holders of this Certificate and of any Certificate issued upon the transfer
hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such
consent is made upon this Certificate.

            As provided in the Agreement and subject to certain limitations
therein set forth, the transfer of this Certificate is registrable in the
Certificate Register upon surrender of this Certificate for registration of
transfer at the offices or agencies maintained by the Certificate Registrar in
New York, New York, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of
transfer in form satisfactory to, the Trustee, duly executed by the holder
hereof or such holder's attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one
or more new Certificates in authorized denominations evidencing the same
aggregate undivided Percentage Interest will be issued to the designated
transferee or transferees.

            The Certificates are issuable only as registered Certificates. As
provided in the Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth,
the Certificate is exchangeable for a new Certificate evidencing the same
undivided ownership interest, as requested by the holder surrendering the same.

            No service charge will be made for any such registration of transfer
or exchange, but the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection
therewith.

            The Servicer, the Seller, the Trustee and the Certificate Registrar,
and any agent of any of the foregoing, may treat the person in whose name this
Certificate is registered as the 
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owner hereof for all purposes, and none of the foregoing shall be affected by
notice to the contrary.

            Except for certain obligations of the Servicer to the Trustee, the
obligations created by the Agreement shall terminate upon notice to the Trustee
of the later of the following events: (i) the final payment or other liquidation
of the last SBA Loan or the disposition of all property acquired upon
foreclosure or deed in lieu of foreclosure of any SBA Loan and the remittance of
all funds due thereunder or (ii) mutual consent of the Servicer and all
Certificateholders in writing; provided, however, that in no event shall the
Trust Fund established by the Agreement terminate later than twenty-one years
after the death of the last surviving lineal descendant of Joseph P. Kennedy,
late Ambassador of the United States to the Court of St. James, alive as of the
date of the Agreement.
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            IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Servicer has caused this Certificate to be
duly executed.

                                    Business Loan Center, Inc.
                                     Servicer

                                    By: /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]
                                        ---------------------------
                                    Name:
                                    Title:

Dated: December 19, 1997

This is one of the 
Certificates referred 
to in the within-
mentioned Agreement.

Marine Midland Bank,
   as Trustee

By:
    ----------------------
    Authorized Signatory

           or

Marine Midland Bank,
as Authenticating Agent

By: /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]
    ----------------------
    Authorized Signatory