Commercial loan utilization at regional banks is rising, signaling returning corporate activity. Fee businesses and payments are offsetting uneven consumer spending trends. AI and platform-based ...

The lowest borrowing rates are often found through commercial banks and the SBA since they are lending to the most creditworthy borrowers. As the risk to capital increases, so does the cost to borrow.

For a stretch of about two years that seemed to many like an eternity, banks were essentially out of the commercial real estate lending business. Institutions big and small went pencils down on new ...

Big banks are on the hunt to grow their loan books and are turning back to an area they had shunned not that long ago. Just a few years ago, banks couldn’t get away from commercial real-estate loans ...

While 2024 was a slow year for borrower demand — as election-related uncertainty and high interest rates put pressure on lenders' commercial clients — the top-performing banks with between $10 billion ...