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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When Stephanie Cohen earned the chief strategy officer’s job at Goldman Sachs in January, she was told she had a blank sheet of paper. Cohen responded by, among other things, launching an internal incubator for new business ideas.
October 1
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Spilkin's education in math and programming, uncommon in investment banking, has allowed her to bring a disruptive approach to problem-solving at Goldman Sachs.
October 1
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At Beth Johnson's insistence, the bank built an analytics platform that can anticipate customers' needs. It's an investment that is paying off in big ways.
September 26
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The mass retirement of baby boomers and the growing affluence of women are the biggest disruptive forces in the industry, says Gunjan Kedia. Here's how she's dealing with them.
September 24
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The youngest member of Goldman Sachs' management committee spent two decades climbing to the top of a male-dominated field — and took on some very tough assignments along the way.
September 23
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Elinor Hoover's passion for helping women-run firms raise capital goes hand in hand with her mission to increase women's visibility within the upper ranks of Citi's management.
September 23
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What if you have workplace flexibility policies and women, afraid to be seen as less committed than male peers, don't use them? Take a lesson from BMO Financial.
September 23
