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 arrangement is designed to benefit commercial clients of both banks that operate on multiple continents. The companies reached the arrangement as part of the recent sale of Bank of the West.
February 22
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The move comes after rivals Bank of America and Goldman Sachs Group cut CEO pay, while JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo left theirs unchanged.
February 22
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JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America threatened to leave climate group NZBA late last year if limits on their fossil-fuel activities were imposed, concerned that they would be legally bound, according to people familiar with the process.
February 21
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Federal Reserve Gov. Michelle Bowman told a group of Tennessee bankers that the review is warranted but says many banks already have plenty of capital. She also touched on ESG, transparency and central bank digital currencies.
February 17
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After months of speculation, Truist Financial has agreed to sell 20% of its insurance brokerage subsidiary to the private-equity firm Stone Point Capital for $1.95 billion. The deal was touted as a way to provide capital for expansion and increase earnings over time.
February 16
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The bank was one of the last major holdouts to bow to expense pressures that have left no one immune.
February 16
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Domestic banks borrowed $7.2 billion from the short-term lending facility in the third quarter of 2022, the highest level in almost two years. Banks with assets of $3 billion or less drove the increase.
February 14
