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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Readers opine on legacy core systems, the negative messaging around the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Jamie Dimon defending his Trump ties, and more.
May 19
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The Washington company said that Sean Brennan, its president and chief operating officer, will become CEO when Jim Mitchell retires next year.
May 18
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The German bank posted two consecutive years of losses partly because of misconduct fines tied to the Libor and other scandals.
May 18
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Authorities are said to be investigating whether market makers — including three U.S. banks — suppressed prices to get higher yields on the bonds.
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JPMorgan Chase's chief caught a lot of Trump blowback at its annual meeting but refused an activist investor's challenge to step down from the president’s council on jobs.
May 16
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The bank also announced that it has recruited a BancWest executive to replace Michael Descheneaux as CFO.
May 15
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Executives at the embattled bank made clear Thursday that they are not discarding its long-standing strategy of selling additional products to existing customers.
May 11
