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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Koger Propst was also named CEO of the company's $2.6 billion-asset ANB Bank.
March 9
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Joseph Greco previously served as CEO of Southern Connecticut Bancorp, which sold itself to Liberty Bank in 2013.
March 8
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The public-private effort, aimed at expansion-minded tech and other companies with proven track records, would be backed by the country’s six largest banks, insurance companies and regional lenders.
March 7
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A joint venture the California company operates in China opened its first branch in Shanghai in 2012.
March 1
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Customers and employees of Opus Bank and Banc of California could bolt to several other Southern California banks amid downsizing, scandal and credit quality issues.
February 28
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The largest U.S. bank’s yearslong effort to do more business with midsize commercial firms has progressed in fits and starts but never met expectations. More patience will be required, but executives say the payoff could be sooner rather than later.
February 28
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Commerce Union had been focused on expanding around Nashville, Tenn., until a lender based 120 miles away was available to hire.
February 27
