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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A new service offered by the company helps clients automatically capture payment and invoice information as well as make sure the data matches.
September 8
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Net income significantly recovered compared with a year earlier, totaling $70.4 billion. But the average net interest margin fell to another record low as lending remained sluggish, the FDIC said in its quarterly update.
September 8
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The Rhode Island bank has entered into an agreement to acquire JMP Group, which focuses on the health care, technology, financial services and real estate sectors.
September 8
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Marquette University has formed a partnership that will give undergraduate business students experience working with grassroots lenders in Panama, Honduras and Nicaragua. The goal is not only to teach the basics of commercial lending, but also to instill some idealism in the next generation of bankers.
September 8
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In his new book “Inside Money,” Zachary Karabell tells a compelling story about how Brown Brothers Harriman influenced the course of U.S. history.
September 6
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Hranicky, currently the head of middle-market banking, replaces Perry Pelos, who is transitioning to an advisory role and will retire next year.
September 3
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The Dallas bank unveiled an initiative that involves doubling its client-facing headcount across the Lone Star State and expanding its investment banking division. But its stock price plunged amid concerns about how long it will take to deliver returns for investors.
September 2
