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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Venture capital banking and wealth management are two areas where the nation's largest bank sees a chance to make gains amid a rash of bank failures. After the company's investor day on Monday, one analyst wrote: "Goliath is winning."
May 22
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The Cincinnati, Ohio, bank targeted Rize Money due to its "ease of accessibility," according to Fifth Third's head of wholesale payments. The acquisition comes as the $205 billion-asset bank has seen wealth and asset management revenue decline in recent years.
May 22
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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
