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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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 -
A server containing sensitive consumer information at Experian has been breached, with the records of as many as 15 million T-Mobile customers stolen, the companies said Oct. 1.
October 2 -
A server containing sensitive consumer information at Experian has been breached, with the records of as many as 15 million T-Mobile customers stolen, the companies said Thursday.
October 1 -
As financial institutions worldwide move to cut off relationships with industries that regulators consider risky, the few banks that serve these businesses are charging hefty fees for basic services.
April 16 -
Cryptocurrency companies and legal marijuana businesses now routinely pay thousands a month for access to basic banking services, which some think reflects their lack of other options more than their real risks.
April 10 -
Mounting yet another defense of JPMorgan Chases size and scope, Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon pointed out the fallibility of smaller banks in his annual letter to shareholders.
April 8