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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Robert Sarver, who is majority owner of the Phoenix Suns basketball team, will retire from his longtime role on the board of directors of Western Alliance Bancorp. in June, the company said. Sarver and the Suns are being investigated by the National Basketball Association regarding allegations of racism and misogyny within the Suns organization.
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Citigroup and Bank of America are partnering with four large European banks to create a methodology for assessing how well companies in the air-travel sector are doing in meeting climate-related targets.
April 7 -
New York Fed researchers found that banks operating in areas hit by tornadoes, floods and other calamities weren’t financially hurt by those disasters. That surprising result comes with significant caveats, however.
April 5 -
Robyn Luhning, the bank’s head of environmental and social risk management, takes the position at a time when financing for the fossil-fuel industry faces scrutiny. Other large banks have created similar roles in recent years.
April 4 -
Vernon Hill, Ellen Alemany and Joseph Otting are among the executives whose careers took a turn after their company was acquired. Here’s a look at what eight CEOs did after their time atop a bank ended.
April 3 -
Esther George, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, says changes in the office sector and monetary policy pose potential risks to property owners and their lenders.
March 30 -
Climate activists have forced votes this spring on whether big banks should move more aggressively to cut off their financing of fossil-fuel companies.
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