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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Far more than most people, financial services professionals ought to understand the compounding crisis of climate change.
October 17
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The second-largest U.S. bank says net interest income, a key source of revenue for the bank, rose 4.5% to $14.4 billion in the third quarter.
October 17
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It's been a rocky few years for senior housing as the sector recovers from its COVID occupancy drop and its profitability takes a hit. But bankers see long-term opportunities amid an aging U.S. population and say their portfolios are healthy.
October 16
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Mark Smith, most recently head of the firm's treasury and trade solutions division in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, will take on the treasurer role on an interim basis.
October 16
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The deal, first announced in September 2022, would have given Taichung Commercial Bancorp a foothold in several U.S. markets.
October 16
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The biggest U.S. bank is selling green bonds for the first time in over two years as sales of the debt accelerate at a record pace.
October 16
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Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has mandated banks to sell dollar-denominated additional tier 1 bonds, in what looks set to be the first such offering in the U.S. currency by any Japanese lender.
October 16
