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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Some lenders, especially in markets like California, are preparing in case of a technology-industry stumble that hurts business, real estate and other loan segments. Whether those fears are well founded is a matter of debate.
March 26
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The deal between Performance Trust and Banks Street Partners is the second combination this month of investment banks that cater to commercial banks.
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Simple math only partly explains why smaller lenders are adding commercial and industrial loans at a faster clip than their larger counterparts.
March 21
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An executive at the Rhode Island company said the complexity of business lending remains an obstacle to switching to entirely automated, paperless operations.
March 20
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The deal will give Janney greater access to the community banking sector.
March 19
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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
