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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The nation's largest bank by assets cited a weakening economic outlook as one reason it added to its allowance for loan losses for the third straight quarter. But its third-quarter results beat analysts' expectations.
October 14
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For some bankers, net zero is like a new year's resolution — a pledge one makes and often breaks before a year has passed.
October 14
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The company generated $17.6 billion in third-quarter net interest income. Expenses also came in lower than analysts expected, driving a profit beat.
October 14
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The average interest rates that banks pay to commercial clients jumped at the end of the summer, according to survey data. Industry executives are likely to face questions about the outlook for 2023 during upcoming earnings calls.
October 13
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Huntington Bancshares in Ohio has recruited its new managing director of commercial specialty banking as well as its new corporate treasurer from rival regional banks.
October 13
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Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group plans to accelerate lending to global funds and other institutional investors in the U.S., as it moves to overtake Goldman Sachs Group this year in loans syndicated in the world's biggest economy.
October 13
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The Rhode Island bank has launched a program that allows companies to use interest earned on their deposits to purchase credits. It's a way for companies to address climate change without reducing their own hard-to-abate emissions.
October 12
