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 $15 a share price represents a 121% premium to where Greenhill's stock traded at the close of Friday, before the deal was announced.
May 22
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The fact that SoftBank, one of the world's most aggressive tech investors, is looking at private credit is more evidence of the market's rapid growth.
May 22
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The move threatens to upend efforts by the billionaire German Larrea's Grupo Mexico to purchase the retail operations of Banamex, one of the country's oldest banks, from Citigroup.
May 19
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Lazard posted a surprise loss for the first quarter and in April announced plans to reduce its workforce by 10% this year, predicting a slowdown in M&A advisory business will last through 2023.
May 19
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Community banks tapped the brakes during the first quarter, citing higher interest rates, recession threats and fallout from regional-bank failures. Fed data shows the trend has continued into May, and executives are preaching caution.
May 17
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The Florida lender hired corporate bankers in New York City who had previously worked at First Republic Bank, which collapsed last week.
May 11
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The California bank says the drop occurred last week after a news report that the lender was in talks with potential investors.
May 11
