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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Bank of Montreal took a hit in the fiscal fourth quarter as a chill in capital markets weighed on investment banking revenue.
December 1
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The baseline scenario used by many banks is for low-single-digit growth in GDP and an unemployment rate of around 4% next year. Some Wall Street analysts are wondering whether those assumptions, which banks use to calculate their loan-loss reserves, are too rosy.
November 30
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The transaction, which would have created the country's largest custody bank, was derailed after regulators demanded certain changes. The seller said that it has no plans to find a new buyer for its investor services business.
November 30
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Royal Bank of Canada posted earnings highlighting its strength at home a day after striking the company's largest deal ever to bolster the business.
November 30
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The Inflation Reduction Act is starting to change the way bankers view their climate targets.
November 30
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Central Pacific Bank, which has branches on the Big Island, is tracking the eruption of Mauna Loa in an effort to limit the risk of service interruptions. So far, the impacts appear to be limited.
November 29
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Mal Cullen will take over as chief executive later this week, succeeding Steven Wolff, who is retiring. CIBC Mellon is a joint venture of Bank of New York Mellon and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.
November 29
