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 San Francisco company has promoted or hired several bankers to steer growth in retail and commercial banking operations just months after completing its purchase of Radius.
June 8
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Mark Carney, a onetime Bank of England governor, argued that banks should not cut ties with polluting businesses, but rather work with clients to help them minimize their impact on the environment.
June 7
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While the industry is facing greater pressure to scrutinize the environmental risks associated with its financing activities, many banks also sense opportunities in climate change. Here are some examples.
June 2
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In merging with First Midwest Bancorp, the Indiana company would finally gain a presence in the Midwest’s largest city.
June 1
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The investment in Finitive is one of a number of technology agreements that the commercial lender has struck recently in an effort to broaden its reach.
May 21
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The $1 billion bond, which follows similar issuances by Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Truist Financial, gives a big role to broker-dealers owned by minorities, women and disabled veterans.
May 19
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The U.S. arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has hired nine bankers away from Wells Fargo in an effort to expand its restaurant finance group. The lender focused on the fast-casual and quick-serve segments during the pandemic and anticipates growth in that sector.
May 17
