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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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.
March 29 -
The chief executives at Bank of America, KeyCorp and Goldman Sachs are among those who were paid substantially more for 2021 performance than for the previous year, when the pandemic hurt profitability and other financial metrics.
March 28 -
The niche railcar leasing unit, which the North Carolina company inherited with its acquisition of CIT, may generate roughly 25% of the combined entity's noninterest income, executives said. They vowed to slow the sale of boxcars that had been underway at CIT.
March 24 -
Bank of Montreal is selling about C$2.7 billion ($2.1 billion) in shares to help fund its purchase of Bank of the West from BNP Paribas.
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