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 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
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Two proposals by Democratic state senators would force companies doing business in the Golden State to report greenhouse gas emissions and disclose climate-related financial risks. The banking trade group opposed similar efforts two years ago.
February 13
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Banks that previously based more of their incentive compensation decisions on loan production are recalibrating this year. It is the latest sign of how competitive the deposit market has gotten.
February 12
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The agency needs to demonstrate the moral courage necessary to break up unmanageably large banks.
February 10
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The top five have just under three billion dollars in noninterest income as of September 30, 2022.
February 7
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Truist Financial eliminated about 5% of its investment banking division amid uncertainty surrounding the dealmaking environment, according to people with knowledge with the matter.
February 7
