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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Citigroup appointed Grant Carson to manage its operations in Russia as a stand-alone entity as the U.S. bank reduces its business in the country following President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
September 27 -
The Bank of England's stress tests are meant to provide an unlikely "tail risk" scenario designed to test the resilience of British lenders. The current U.K. market turmoil means this year's scenario is looking increasingly plausible.
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The parent company of Silicon Valley Bank has hired a law firm to assess its "Access to Innovation" effort. That program aims to provide support, including more funding, to startups and venture firms that were started by women and members of certain minority groups.
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Some of the Revlon creditors that were accidentally sent more than $900 million by Citigroup asked a federal appeals court for a rehearing, after it ruled that they had to give the money back.
September 23 -
These standout performers all reported a three-year return on average equity above 14%. Two of them topped 20%.
September 23 -
Citigroup is targeting India as one of its top markets to expand in globally as risks mount in China and other regions, the bank's global co-head of investment banking said.
September 23 -
On paper, the deal was a no-brainer: a $15 billion debt financing that would net banks hefty fees and kick off a year of mega-acquisitions even as central banks tightened the spigots on their pandemic support. Yet eight months after agreeing to finance the leveraged buyout of Citrix Systems, Wall Street is now staring at a very different picture.
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