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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A decline in deposits at many banks is putting upward pressure on loan-to-deposit ratios, a key metric of liquidity. The sharpest increases have come at banks with between $3 billion and $10 billion of assets.
February 24
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The rise of e-commerce during the pandemic has fueled demand for warehouse space as companies look to move their products closer to their customers. While a slight slowdown is now under way, bankers still see plenty of business ahead.
February 24
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Net income for the country's six largest banks is expected to fall 15% in the fiscal first quarter, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That would be the largest drop since the third quarter of 2020.
February 23
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Apollo Global Management is in talks to inject the funds to support the leveraged-finance business of Credit Suisse Group's investment banking spinoff First Boston, potentially making it one of the biggest backers of the Swiss lender's revamp.
February 23
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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
