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 new management layer would be senior to the bank's managing directors, executives told employees at an off-site.
March 5
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The specter of an economic downturn looms, but many companies are still in growth mode, according to Donald McCree, head of commercial banking at the Rhode Island bank. "We continue to hear from a lot of companies that they are doing quite well," he said.
March 2
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The small businesses said in a lawsuit that the bank used "misleading marketing and business practices" to rake in processing fees from oversized Paycheck Protection Program loans. A bank spokesperson placed responsibility on PPP borrowers for the representations they made in loan applications.
March 1
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The merger of Columbia and Umpqua has created a $52 billion-asset bank rooted in the Pacific Northwest. CEO Clint Stein said the company has room to expand in California, Arizona, Colorado and Utah.
March 1
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The Canadian bank now expects loan growth in the mid-single-digit range this year, down from a high-single-digit forecast three months ago. "We're not slowing, but the economy is," one executive said.
February 28
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Toronto-Dominion Bank is on the hook for $1.2 after settling litigation over its connection to a massive Ponzi scheme, and Independent Bank Group in Texas agreed to pay $100 million. A third bank, HSBC, settled for a smaller amount.
February 27
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Nothing demoralizes a good employee like seeing managers tolerate a bad one.
February 27
