Commercial Banking News, Strategy & Risk Analysis
American Banker's commercial banking coverage explores how banks serve middle-market and corporate clients, focusing on issues such as interest-rate volatility, regulatory pressure, and intensifying competition for deposits and credit relationships. This section focuses on balance-sheet strategy, commercial lending, treasury and cash management, risk governance, and the technologies reshaping relationship banking.
Learn how institutions are recalibrating growth expectations, managing credit exposure, and using payments and treasury capabilities to deepen client relationships while preserving profitability.
Commercial banking is under structural pressure from higher funding costs, uneven loan demand, and increased supervisory scrutiny. Banks are being forced to prioritize relationship depth, disciplined credit selection, and non-interest income generation rather than balance-sheet expansion alone.
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JPMorgan estimates the effort, which will ramp up the amount of capital, resources and personnel that it dedicates to a variety of sectors, such as rare earth minerals, pharmaceutical precursors and robotics, will add as much as $500 billion to what it would've provided anyway.
October 13
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Don McCree, who has led commercial banking at Citizens since 2015, plans to retire next year. His successor, Ted Swimmer, who was in charge of capital markets, took over on Tuesday.
October 7
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Supplies of the one-cent coin have fallen faster than expected, causing headaches for cash businesses and the lenders that provide them with change.
October 6
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Fifth Third announced it plans to buy the Dallas bank in a $10.9 billion transaction.
October 6
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Many banks lowered the interest rates they pay on certificates of deposits and high-yield savings accounts in September, capitalizing on the Fed's 25-basis-point cut.
October 6
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College sophomores are applying for jobs before they've even taken a finance class. Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon says he dislikes the process, but doesn't have the power to change it.
October 3
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Houston-based Prosperity will pay $269 million in stock for Southwest Bancshares in San Antonio. The sale comes on the heels of the death of Southwest's founder and chairman.
October 1
