Finance

Smaller Banks Face Growing Commercial Real Estate Risk: Report 

While subprime-related write-downs have been — and will likely continue to be — prevalent among many banks’ earnings releases, the subprime and related mortgage mess has been mostly an issue for larger banks. National banks including the likes of Washington Mutual, Wachovia, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and others have had to absorb the effects of the industry downturn to a greater extent than mid-size and community banks.