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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Financial institutions that received funding from the Emergency Capital Investment Program grew their loans by 35% between 2021 and 2022, according to new research. Now leaders at those institutions are turning their attention to the need for patient deposits.
June 8
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Citigroup Chief Executive Officer Jane Fraser visited Beijing this week, joining other Wall Street executives to travel to China despite growing geopolitical tensions with the United States.
June 7
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The Tennessee-based bank was supposed to be acquired this year, but the merger fell apart a month ago. Now executives say that employees are energized as they reengage with clients who are relieved that they won't be switched away from First Horizon's systems.
June 6
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The resilience of the largest banks around the world is considered essential to the ongoing safe functioning of the global financial system.
June 2
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When the once-ubiquitous interest rate goes away at the end of June, some businesses that have older loans may see a sudden jump in their payments. Banks, lawyers and business leaders are doing last-minute work to avoid that scenario.
June 1
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The unit's CEO, Jeff Leerink, and his management team are said to be preparing to announce a deal for the firm in the coming days, pending approval from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
June 1
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CEO Bill Rogers says the North Carolina bank is contemplating additional business segment changes to improve its efficiency. Investors have been pushing the company to cut costs at a faster clip.
May 31
