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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Speaking at an investor conference Wednesday, John Turner said that sellers’ asking prices are too high and that Regions would prefer to buy a nonbank that could help boost fee income.
December 5
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Robert Rubino will join the New York company in February as president of CIT Bank and head of commercial banking.
December 4
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U.S. earnings climbed 44% from a year earlier, aided by lower taxes, a widening net interest margin, record contributions from its stake in TD Ameritrade.
November 29
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It's the latest expansion step in commercial services there by the Atlanta bank, which has no retail branches in Texas.
November 27
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The lender is working with the fintech Biz2Credit to offer both secured and unsecured digital loans.
November 19
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The bank has long had a program in place to train new employees, but now it’s testing a pilot to help retrain existing staff for different careers at the institution.
November 15
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Citigroup CEO Michael Corbat added to the chorus of bankers offering warnings about credit risks that loom outside of the banking industry.
November 14
