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 Spanish banking giant is accelerating its U.S. growth plans with the pending acquisition of Webster Financial in Connecticut. The combined entity will be the second-largest foreign-owned bank operating in the country.
February 4
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The Spanish banking giant, which has been trying to grow its U.S. business, plans to acquire the Connecticut-based parent company of Webster Bank.
February 3
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The Arkansas-based company pivoted to organic growth a few years ago, after making 14 bank acquisitions in less than a decade.
February 2
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The combination of the banks is the latest in a trend of deals closing on speedier timelines, and signals the industry's hunt for scale.
February 2
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When the Swiss banking giant bought rival Credit Suisse in 2023, it inherited an investigation over money the Nazis looted from European Jews. The issue now seems to be coming to a head in Washington.
February 2
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Court documents reveal how a teller used the drive-through window and work email to aid a scheme that bypassed TD's fraud defenses.
January 30
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The Long Island-based bank returned to profitability during the fourth quarter of 2025. The results mark "a significant milestone" in the bank's turnaround plan, CEO Joseph Otting said.
January 30
