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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Nearly three out of five respondents to a Bloomberg survey said they would most like to work for the CEO of JPMorgan Chase. That was enough to make Dimon the most popular choice out of a list of the leaders of six big banks.
July 24
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American Banker's annual list reviews the financial results for the best-performing large institutions.
July 24
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The regional bank told analysts that it has studied how much debt it would need to raise based on an effective post-reform capital floor of 6% of risk-weighted assets, and has determined that that increase in capital would be manageable.
July 21
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The Dallas-based company, which saw $3.7 billion of deposits withdrawn after Silicon Valley Bank failed, now predicts average deposits will fall 14% to 15% compared with last year. However, the pace of outflow is slowing, say the bank's executives.
July 21
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The Pasadena, California, bank expects to spend more on hiring this year, including the addition of some former Silicon Valley bankers. Anticipated loan growth and an uncertain economic horizon prompted the bank to increase reserves for bad loans.
July 20
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Chairman and CEO Chris Gorman said Key's reduction efforts were prompted by an expectation big banks will be expected to operate with significantly lower loan-to-deposit ratios going forward.
July 20
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The Columbus, Georgia, bank is selling a $1.3 billion portfolio as part of a plan to pay off higher-cost funding. Though there are rising concerns about the office sector, Synovus said the loans it's offloading have pristine credit quality.
July 20
