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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Credit Suisse Group is close to an agreement to buy Michael Klein's advisory boutique after several rounds of tense negotiations, according to people briefed on the talks.
January 9
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The parent company of Silicon Valley Bank has tapped Kim Olson, a former bank supervisor who most recently worked at Tokyo's Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., to oversee its risk department.
January 5
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The accident killed the plane's pilot, Utah businessman Nathan Ricks. The Seattle company has named an interim chief while Beardall recovers after surgery.
January 4
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But it's not that green financing is finally winning out over fossil-fuel lending. Rather, Big Oil looks to be getting more money from elsewhere.
January 4
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The Mississippi bank would take a big hit to capital and income but avoid the risk of a bigger payout from a guilty verdict in litigation against banks that did business with Allen Stanford's disgraced financial empire.
January 3
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The Spanish lender, aiming to become a leader among second-tier lenders in the U.S., expects to increase the number of bankers at its securities and advisory unit, its head of corporate and investment banking said.
January 3
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Wells Fargo nabbed a spot among the top 10 advisors on mergers and acquisitions last year, a first for the firm as it ramps up its investment bank under Chief Executive Charlie Scharf.
January 3
