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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Eric Smith and Michael Morton have been brought on as vice chairs to help build out the Chicago bank's commercial lending arm.
January 22
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Want to level the playing field with big banks and fintechs in the year ahead? Here's where to start.
January 14
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The rebound, combined with strong earnings from debt underwriting and consumer banking, pushed net revenue for the period to the highest since 2015.
January 14
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The institutional clients group will add the jobs in New York, London, Shanghai and several other cities across the globe.
January 6
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Morgan Stanley is the latest firm to make a year-end efficiency push, eliminating about 1,500 jobs, according to people familiar with the matter.
December 27
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New CEO Tim Wennes is counting on soon-to-launch digital offerings to boost consumer loans and deposits and playing up Santander's international reach in a bid to win over middle-market and corporate clients.
December 24
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BBVA USA said Monday that Susana Valencia will retain her job as Laredo City president while also overseeing commercial banking operations in its Texas border and Gulf Coast markets.
December 23
