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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Kevin Fitzsimmons, who had recently covered banks for Hovde Group, will become FIG Partners' deputy director of research.
January 16 -
Though business owners are more optimistic about the direction of the economy since the tax law was passed, it's doubtful their borrowing will increase meaningfully until they see more signs of more robust growth, bankers say.
January 16
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The move follows a shareholder proposal filed by Boston-based Arjuna Capital and is the first of its kind by a big U.S. bank.
January 16
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Apart from a one-time adjustment for deferred taxes, the Dallas company reported strong gains in net interest income and meaningful improvement in all of its key performance ratios.
January 16
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The bank's effective tax rate will drop this year to 19% from 32%. That means that if JPMorgan generates the same pretax profit this year as it did in 2017, earnings will rise by more than $3.5 billion.
January 12
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Sundie Seefried is high on pot banking. Hollywood is not so sweet on the former SBA head's bid for Weinstein Co. Another woman takes on Mick Mulvaney in court. And what's shushing women on Wall Street with stories to tell? Arbitration, for one thing.
January 11
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The McLean, Va., company said that the personnel moves were unrelated to either its financial performance or its risk performance.
January 9
