Editor in Chief

Neil Weinberg is American Banker’s editor in chief. Neil came to the American Banker in May 2011 after 18 years at Forbes Media, where he was a reporter, Japan bureau chief, senior editor and executive editor in charge of Money & Investing coverage for Forbes magazine and Forbes.com. Neil was awarded the Overseas Press Club's 2006 award for the best business story in a magazine and is co-author of Stolen Without A Gun: Confessions from inside history's biggest accounting fraud — the collapse of MCI Worldcom. He is based in New York.

Dodd-Frank Rollback, Pandit's Return, as JPM Turns
May 17, 2013 Receiving Wide Coverage ... Deriving Pleasure: Too many price quotes will increase trading costs and reduce liquidity. That...

Bank Discrimination Suit Highlights D.C. Insanity
May 13, 2013 Bankers truly face a Catch-22 in the lending business these days, thanks to "qualified mortgage" and disparate impact laws.

Bank CEO Pay: From Bad to Worse?
May 3, 2013 Finding the right pay formula is a messy business. Leave it to shareholders and the market to sort out.

JPM Free-for-All; Stevie Cohen's Chutzpah; Systemic Risk Redux
May 3, 2013 Receiving Wide Coverage ... Jamie in the Hot Seat: When the nation's two most influential dailies simultaneously run stories...

Why the TBTF Debate is a Sideshow
April 22, 2013 Fixating on whether to break up the biggest banks puts policymakers at risk of re-fighting the last war while giving short...

Morgan Stanley's Trade-In; SEC's Amnesia; Curry's Spicy Memo
April 19, 2013 Receiving Wide Coverage ... Who Needs Volcker?: The verdict is in on Morgan Stanley's (MS) weak first quarter, and it's a...

BOJ Goes Big; Fed Mulls Change; Corzine Gets Slapped
April 5, 2013 Receiving Wide Coverage ... BOJ Goes for Broke: ...Or, perhaps, will go broke trying. Haruhiko Kuroda, the newly installed...

Fed's Minsky Musings, StanChart's Mea Culpa, Cyprus' Cash Crunch ...
March 22, 2013 Receiving Wide Coverage ... Fearing a Minsky Moment: The more stable financial markets appear, the more unstable they're...

Bernanke in Limbo; Too Big to Ignore; Commodity Famine
March 11, 2013 Receiving Wide Coverage ... Bernanke in No-Man's Land: When the history of the financial crisis is written, Federal Reserve...

Libor Scandal Spreads, Ratings Troubles Deepen, Volcker Rule Bites
February 8, 2013 Receiving Wide Coverage ... A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall: JPMorgan Chase (JPM) on Thursday became the latest megabank implicated...