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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The six biggest banks in the U.S. are expected to sell between $28 billion and $32 billion of new bonds after they report quarterly earnings, and regional banks — seeking to raise more capital — could be right behind them.
July 13
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Tom Drake is joining Wells from Barclays as a managing director in its mergers-and-acquisitions group focusing on health care services and medical-technology deals. Chris Norman, most recently at Citigroup, is joining as a managing director in M&A focusing on technology in San Francisco.
July 12
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JPMorgan Chase hired Silicon Valley Bank veteran John China to co-lead the business of banking venture capitalists and startups, part of the firm's growth strategy for the sector.
July 11
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The Cleveland-based regional bank recently announced a $20 million line of credit for Lendistry, a Los Angeles-based, minority-led community development financial institution.
July 10
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Citigroup executive Jay Collins says the company is "absolutely interested" in arranging new deals in the market for debt-for-nature swaps, which allow countries to restructure their debt in exchange for promises to protect the environment.
July 10
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We surveyed 164 professionals at banks and credit unions to find out their tech agenda for this year, including investment plans, tech priorities and thoughts on transformational tools. Here's what we found out.
July 10
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Dan Kimerling, whose former company Standard Treasury was acquired by Silicon Valley Bank in 2015, shares his thoughts on what led to the bank's collapse, whether there will be a chilling effect on tech lending and if there is a future for niche banks.
July 6
