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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Five executives were appointed to new roles within the revamped business unit that houses business banking, government and institutional banking and middle-market banking. All will report to commercial banking head Kyle Hranicky.
June 4
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The Canadian parent of BMO Harris Bank in Chicago has named Johannson group head of North American personal banking, an extension of similar executive duties she holds in the U.S.
June 4
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Michael Ward, a former CEO at Mrs. Fields Famous Brands, has been a Prime Alliance director for 14 years.
June 4
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Eric Meilstrup, who was named president last fall, will succeed Steve Foster as CEO next month.
May 31
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West Florida Banking is made up of bankers who ran Jefferson Bank of Florida, which is now part of CenterState Banks.
May 30
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A burgeoning trade war, the U.K.’s planned exit from the European Union and escalating tension between the U.S. and Iran have weighed on market sentiment in recent weeks, Citigroup CEO Michael Corbat said Wednesday.
May 29
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A Burke & Herbert veteran will serve as CEO until January, when the bank will introduce an outsider as its leader.
May 29
