S&P Downgrades Banks Amidst Troubled Commercial Real Estate Market
Loan Exposures Raise Concerns Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has downgraded five regional banks due to their exposure to the struggling commercial real estate (CRE) market. The downgraded banks include First Commonwealth Financial Corp., M&T Bank Corp., Synovus Financial Corp., Trustmark Corp., and Valley National Bancorp. S&P warns that the banks’ significant loan exposure to CRE…