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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Six senior executives at Chemical and TCF will move into similar roles when the merger closes later this year. Chemical Bank's current CEO, Tom Shafer, will become president of the combined bank, reporting to CEO Craig Dahl.
March 8
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Fincross, based on the island of Mauritius, is launching a regulated investment bank for digital assets. It faces tough competition.
March 4
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Mel Watt calls FHFA watchdog “sexist,” after it concludes he’s guilty of sexual harassment. State Street sues the "Fearless Girl" sculptor. Banks big and small face mounting pressure on gender pay gap and board diversity. And another top 40 U.S. bank might get a female CEO.
February 21
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The Rhode Island bank is one of several regionals that have snapped up dealmaking boutiques in recent years to bolster noninterest income.
February 19
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Members of both parties want to make it easier for legal cannabis businesses to access financial services, but myriad obstacles stand in the way of that goal.
February 13
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The New Jersey bank said it will save millions of dollars by eliminating the jobs as well as selling and leasing back some of its real estate.
February 13
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Why now? Will it work? How will their rivals respond? The megadeal between the two East Coast regionals offers up plenty of grist for speculation.
February 7
