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 New York megabank has a long way to go on its path toward simplification of its business, but some early investments — such as technology upgrades in the treasury unit, which serves commercial customers — are starting to pay small dividends.
July 15 -
The Pittsburgh company expects a slowdown in 2023, but executives say they don't think it will prove severe or have an outsized impact on the banking industry.
July 15 -
Second-quarter profits fell 27% to $4.5 billion in what's shaping up as a tough quarter for many large banks. Yet investors responded favorably to Citigroup's unexpectedly large hauls from currencies, commodities and interest rates trading and its shuttling of corporate money over borders.
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Regulators are poised to extract about $1 billion in fines from the five biggest U.S. investment banks for failing to monitor employees using unauthorized messaging apps.
July 15 -
The Federal Reserve’s aggressive rate hikes are leading corporate clients to demand higher deposit rates, according to industry consultants. Some banks are better positioned than others to weather the changing landscape.
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Community development financial institutions will receive low-interest loans from Bank of America and use that money to fund the development of primary health care centers in communities of color and rural areas.
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The top five had a combined portfolio of nearly half a billion dollars.
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