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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Flagstar’s main business is lending to nonbank mortgage lenders, and New York Community Bancorp CEO Thomas Cangemi has a plan for tapping those borrowers to drive loan and deposit growth.
July 28
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The $542 million acquisition would more than double the Florida-based bank's assets and deposits in one of the nation's most competitive markets.
July 23
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The Rhode Island bank joins a small group of financial institutions offering corporate clients the chance to park their cash reserves in environmentally friendly projects.
July 22
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JPMorgan Chase’s investment bankers posted their best quarter ever as a record first half in dealmaking bolstered the bottom line at the nation’s largest bank. But expenses climbed in the second quarter and loan growth remained out of reach.
July 13
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The company will increase annual base salaries by up to $25,000 in an effort to retain younger staff facing burnout from working long hours during the pandemic.
July 2
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The plan underscores how Chief Executive David Solomon is seeking to reshape U.S. operations geographically as he looks to rein in expenses, placing thousands of jobs in cheaper locales.
June 29
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Sunwest Bank in Irvine, California, lets business customers open new checking accounts completely online, a technology challenge some large and regional financial institutions have yet to tackle.
June 22
