Marc Hochstein was the editor-in-chief of American Banker from July 2014 to September 2017. He joined the publication in 1998 as a reporter covering mortgages and steadily added responsibility over the years. At one time or another he oversaw American Banker's coverage of consumer finance, payments and community banking; the vibrant opinion blog BankThink; the wildly popular Morning Scan newsletter; and the reinvigoration of SourceMedia's mortgage publications. Marc was responsible for some of the earliest serious coverage of bitcoin anywhere and chaired SourceMedia's successful Blockchains + Digital Currencies conferences from 2014-2017.
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Prediction markets are the opposite of "yes men" they're designed to induce experts to show what they really think. Could large banks, among the most siloed, opaque and politicized organizations around, use internal prediction markets to learn hard truths?
January 14 -
Maybe disruptors, not bankers, are the ones who need to worry about an abrupt paradigm shift. Though many bankers fear having fintech startups pick off the most profitable parts of their business, history suggests this "unbundling" of banks is a recurring, temporary phenomenon that is generally followed by a period of "rebundling."
January 7 -
Ramamurthi has transformed a 123-year-old institution with one branch serving a dusty Kansas town into a seedbed for disruptive financial technology not to mention a wildly profitable generator of fee income.
December 17 -
The Bank for International Settlements acknowledges that people may have legitimate reasons to prefer an anonymous payment system.
November 25 -
Led by a team of financial services and regulatory veterans and young techies, Privacy.com represents the first mainstream attempt to build a business explicitly around transactional privacy in the era of Edward Snowden and Ashley Madison.
October 27 - PH
Deutsche Bank's $6B Goof; Morgan Stanley's Transformational Struggle
October 20 -
Santander Group, the Spanish banking giant, has invested several million dollars in Ripple, one of the most prominent startups in the hotly discussed field of distributed-ledger technology.
October 6 -
Santander Group, the Spanish banking giant, has invested several million dollars in Ripple, one of the most prominent startups in the hotly discussed field of distributed-ledger technology.
October 6 -
The term has gone from a common brand name to a catch-all for innovative technologies in financial services to a somewhat patronizing plural noun to describe startups and their founders.
October 5 -
Swift CEO Gottfried Leibbrandt talks about how the global messaging network is looking to stay relevant to its bank members; the potential and limitations of blockchain technology; and his views on the startups looking to disrupt banking.
By Robert BarbaOctober 5