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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Brady, Key's chief information officer since 2012, resigned Monday due to "personal health considerations," the Cleveland-based bank said in a securities filing. Chief Financial Officer Clark Khayat will assume her duties.
March 2
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The financial advisory firm initially sought an industrial loan charter back in 2020. It's the third company to receive the necessary approvals this year, joining General Motors and Ford.
February 27
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The Toronto-based bank reported higher revenue across the entire company, including in the U.S., and kept expenses in line with its previous projections.
February 26
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At an investor day in London, Banco Santander executives laid out the Spanish company's new financial goals, including a goal to improve a key profitability metric in the U.S. The pending acquisition of Webster Financial in Connecticut is part of the strategy to achieve higher returns, they said.
February 25
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BMO moved closer to hitting company-wide and U.S. profit targets after reporting increased first-quarter profits.
February 25
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The nation's largest bank said Monday that it will continue to invest in artificial intelligence, despite fears that the technology may harm lenders, and in private credit, despite concerns of cracks in asset quality.
February 23
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The North Carolina-based megabank is making a $25 billion commitment to private credit — the latest signal that banks are undeterred, even as Wall Street raises alarm bells about the sector.
February 20
