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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Northern Trust, Western Alliance Bank and Synovus led RepTrak's 2026 ranking by noncustomers, as direct experience with a firm produced wide gaps between how customers and outsiders viewed some banks.
August 17
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Chime, USAA Bank and Regions led the customer reputation rankings in RepTrak's 2026 survey, in which respondents also placed particular emphasis on whether banks meet customer needs and operate ethically.
August 17
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RepTrak's 2026 bank reputation survey found the industry retained a historically strong reputation, though underlying data suggests consumers are skeptical of artificial intelligence and banks' ability to self-police in a deregulatory environment.
August 17
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The cash-and-equity deal will add a fast-growing ETF issuer to the Wall Street giant's roster of offerings.
August 12
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As Kate Danella becomes the bank's chief administrative officer, John Jordan, who's been accelerating Regions' branch-banking growth, will take over Danella's previous role leading consumer banking.
August 11
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The second-largest U.S. bank provided an update to investors about the consent order issued by the OCC in 2024, saying a resolution may include monetary penalties.
August 3
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The Treasury's financial crime prevention arm said the Swiss firm's U.S. brokerage wing largely ignored a 2018 consent order to clean up its anti-money-laundering processes, leading to the historic settlement announced early in August.
August 3
