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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In his new role at the nation's largest bank, Andrew Kresse will manage the business that serves companies with up to $20 million in annual revenue.
March 21
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The scandal involving Wells Fargo that surfaced last year shows the U.S. banking industry still has work to do on improving its culture, Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley said.
March 21
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The German lender says that the Justice Department closed a criminal inquiry into its currency-trading activities without action, but regulators are said to be in the final stages of their own reviews of that conduct to determine if any fines are in order.
March 21
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Jim Rosenthal previously served as chief operating officer at the Wall Street investment bank. He joins the board of an online lender that has recorded losses in five straight quarters.
March 21
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The former chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, who died Monday, displayed “great graciousness, even in periods of stress."
March 20
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David Rockefeller, the U.S. banker, philanthropist, presidential adviser and heir to one of history’s most fabled fortunes, has died. At 101, he was the world’s oldest billionaire.
March 20
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Bay Street's highest-paid female banker set a new benchmark for women executives in the banking industry — though their ranks among the top wage earners remain thin.
March 17
