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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Former NFL quarterback Tom Brady knew his opponents better than they knew themselves. Smart bankers should too. Here's a 10-point "wristband playbook" for mastering banking's other KYC: know your competition.
April 13
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Santander U.S. and Webster Financial are doing integration work in advance of their pending merger, including naming business-line leaders, the banks said in separate notes.
April 7
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The Minneapolis-based company plans to leverage the arrangement to draw more attention to its growing list of national business lines, transcending its regional reputation.
April 7
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After French authorities stopped a bomb plot against a Bank of America office in Paris, security experts warned banks to step up their preparations for terror attacks.
April 2
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The largest banks in the country each warn employees against using confidential information for trading activities, but they don't specifically enumerate prediction markets or events contracts. Now, oversight of insider trading on such platforms is gaining traction.
April 2
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Alessandro DiNello, who served as Flagstar's executive chairman in 2024, said he's leaving in order to enjoy his retirement. Meanwhile, a lawsuit accusing him of various wrongdoings is still pending.
March 30
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Citi's top executives are considering buying a bank, according to anonymous sources. Such a move would help ramp up deposits to help fuel other operations, they said.
March 27
