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Executive Summary The last decade has observed tremendous changes in the way how banking institutions are regulated, the way they make use of technology to produce and offer financial services and the way they compete with one another. Such transformations have significant impacts on banks, for the banking segment as a whole and through extension for the households and businesses which purchase financial services from banks. Further, taking the above discussion into consideration this particular paper attempts to explore the case of Commerce Bank. The paper highlights the issues faced by the bank, possible factors and current situation of the bank. Background Commerce Bank was established in the year 1865 at the time when Francis Reid Long came with $10,000 capital to Kansas City and began a bank i.e. the Kansas City Savings Association (Frei, 2006). By around 1890, the banking institution, at that time called the National Bank of Commerce, was regarded as the biggest bank located in the west of Chicago. Moreover, the Commerce Bank has at all times been an innovator. During 1928, the bank started the foremost 24-hour transit department within the nation (Commerce Bank, 2013). This added a lot in speeding up the transit of