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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JPMorgan Chase's top lawyer oversees a team of more than 1,900 legal professionals in 29 countries.
September 25
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Bita Ardalan has been promoted four times over the past five years, most recently in 2015 when she was named head of commercial banking.
September 25
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Once a regional operation, U.S. Bank's corporate banking unit has grown into a national powerhouse under Leslie Godridge.
September 25
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Begonya Klumb has, in short order, established UMB Financial as one of the nation’s foremost administrators of health savings accounts and related products.
September 25
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Across asset management, investment banking, capital markets and cards, these finance executives stand out for their performance and for helping to create a path to parity for women in sectors that tend to be even more male-dominated than the banking industry.
September 25
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When Andy Cecere took over as CEO of U.S. Bancorp in April, one of his first orders of business was to promote Kate Quinn to vice chairman and chief administrative officer.
September 25
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Cate Luzio leads roughly 900 HSBC bankers worldwide who serve 33,000 subsidiaries of large multinationals.
September 25
