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 Minneapolis company is planning a dramatic reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from its operations and the activities it finances, matching a commitment made by many of the nation’s largest financial institutions.
November 10
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Hope Dmuchowski will join the Memphis, Tennessee, bank as it contends with higher-than-expected costs in connection with its acquisition of Iberiabank. She has previous experience with integrations, having participated in the combination of BB&T and SunTrust Banks.
November 9 -
Meghan Hinds, a 15-year veteran at the San Francisco bank, leads a group that’s been reorganized following several key departures last spring.
November 9
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The Portland, Oregon, company has tapped former Bank of the West executive Kevin Gillette to lead its expansion in Arizona.
November 9 -
Bank of New York Mellon will sever ties with the billionaire Gautam Adani’s contentious Carmichael thermal coal mine in Australia, the latest global financial institution to distance itself from the project.
November 8 -
The Illinois bank is acquiring about 1,800 loans to insurance agents. As part of the deal, a team of Allstate specialists will join the bank's insurance agency finance business.
November 1
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The Texas bank, which has spent six years reducing its exposure to fossil fuel companies, aims to bottom out at around 5% of its total loan portfolio.
October 29
