Commercial lending

Dramatic changes in the way banking services are delivered combined with slow economic growth has resulted in too many banks chasing too little business, said BB&T's CEO.

Readers weigh in on online lending growth, how President Trump’s healthcare policies affect lenders, regulation’s effects on community banks and more.

With online retailers beginning to challenge the dominance of brick-and-mortar grocery stores, CRE loans to strip mails anchored by them look riskier.

Ditching paper and digitizing tasks help community banks operate more efficiently and write more profitable commercial loans.

Federal regulators’ 2013 guidance on leveraged lending should have been treated as a rule under the Congressional Review Act – and is now eligible for Congress to repeal, the Government Accountability Office said Thursday.

The $36.3 billion-asset bank reported double-digit growth in C&I loans, commercial real estate loans and specialty loans to the private-equity, entertainment and energy industries in the third quarter.

The New York bank's total loans rose 8% to $31 billion from a mix of commercial real estate and specialty finance credits.

Total loans fell 1.6% at the North Carolina-based regional bank, which has been scaling back in key segments such as residential mortgages and auto. Wider margins offset that reduction, but earnings were flat and revenue growth small.

The Dallas company reported a 40% increase in net income from the same period in 2016.

Martin Chavez reminded analysts Tuesday that while the Wall Street firm may be new consumer lending, the executives leading the unit are all veterans of the sector.