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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Institutions that cling to outdated lending tools run the risk of being left behind by commercial clients who are barraged with opportunities to borrow faster and more conveniently.
October 22
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The family-owned bank from the South and the New York commercial lender each would fill a clear need for the other. First Citizens would gain business lending expertise and an online deposit-gathering platform, and CIT would get the cheap deposits it coveted.
October 16
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The combined company would be the nation's 19th-largest bank with roughly $110 billion of assets.
October 16
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Bank of America is applying a familiar arsenal — including APIs and its popular virtual assistant, Erica — to online business banking, cross-border payments and cash management in an effort to modernize those services.
October 15
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Ray McGuire, one of Citigroup’s top investment bankers, has been vocal about his ideas for improving education and access to health care in low-income and minority neighborhoods.
October 15
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Revenue at each of Goldman Sachs’s four divisions rose from a year earlier, pushing earnings per share to a record that was almost twice as high as analysts predicted.
October 14
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Credit Suisse Group is set to hire Christian Meissner, Bank of America’s former investment bank head, as it seeks to link up its richest customers with deals sourced by its securities unit.
October 13
