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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Some of the Revlon creditors who were accidentally sent more than $900 million by Citigroup were denied a bid for a wider review of an appeals court ruling that they had to give the money back.
October 12 -
Minority farmers who sought to take advantage of a U.S. debt-assistance program claim in a lawsuit that the government failed to provide any of the promised relief and reneged on a deal to resolve their discrimination claims.
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The financial advisory firm cited recent conversations with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., where the current leadership is widely seen as unwelcoming of efforts to open new ILCs.
October 11 -
The world's biggest climate-finance alliance has sought to dismiss reports that a number of Wall Street banks are threatening to leave, as it races to bring its house in order in the run-up to next month's COP27 climate summit.
October 11 -
The megabank made its first-ever disclosures about financed emissions in a report aligned with the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures. "The complexity of this process only served to highlight the critical need for consistent, verified public reporting of emissions and other climate-related data," the bank stated.
October 6 -
The top four have over one hundred million dollars in combined total loans and leases.
October 6 -
WaFd Bank is benefiting from strong demand for real estate development loans, even in the face of rising interest rates. It's looking for ways to slow growth to maintain its capital levels, CEO Brent Beardall says.
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