John Heltman is the Washington Bureau Chief for American Banker. John previously edited American Banker Magazine and is the creator of American Banker's narrative podcast Bankshot. He was awarded the Grand Neal, the top honor bestowed by the Jesse H. Neal Awards, in 2019 for his narrative podcast series Nobody’s Home, which examines the economic and social impact of concentrated vacant housing. He was also named the 2019 McAllister Editorial Fellow at Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He is a 2005 graduate of St. Mary’s College of Maryland and lives in Baltimore, Md.
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Computers were invented to calculate quickly and efficiently, and the emergence of the internet opened up enticing new possibilities for communication and commerce. But security has long been an afterthought.
April 29 -
The government's approach to cybersecurity has evolved gradually over the last 40 years, and what we have now is a patchwork approach that serves some critical infrastructures better than others.
April 29 -
The advent of advanced quantum computers could upend encryption as we know it, and a race is on to protect cyberspace before one arrives. But no one knows when that will be, and updating the internet will require a new approach.
April 29 -
Introducing Zero Day, a five-part podcast on the structural challenges cybersecurity poses for the financial system and why those problems are getting harder to solve.
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The office and retail markets could look very different in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic. Here's what it could mean for lenders.
April 22 -
With the government pumping trillions of new spending into the economy, experts are questioning the Federal Reserve's ability to keep prices stable.
April 8 -
The novel coronavirus poses not only an unprecedented health crisis, but an unprecedented financial crisis as well. Can we forestall a worst-case scenario?
March 26 -
With the government’s backing and thanks to the unprecedented capital levels they built up since the 2008 financial crisis, banks could provide relief in a way that they never have before.
March 22 -
In announcing the central bank’s emergency rate cut, Chairman Jerome Powell warned that the Fed can only do so much.
March 3 -
Ken Montgomery, who is heading up the Federal Reserve's faster payments network, says the agency is taking an incremental approach to launching the service.
February 12
