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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Portable digital identities could improve customer experience, cut costs and generate revenue for banks. But who’s on the hook when something goes wrong?
June 21 -
The world needs faster and cheaper international payments, but more than that it needs censorship-resistant ways to transact.
June 12 -
David McLaughlin, founder and CEO of QuantaVerse, discusses how artificial intelligence can improve anti-money-laundering compliance; the problems of de-risking and "defensive filing" of suspicious activity reports; the Clearing House's proposal to reduce banks' AML costs; and more.
May 23 -
The creators of a top "altcoin" are building privacy features for JPMorgan's blockchain platform.
May 22 -
The bank is pitching digital identity products to businesses as a way to improve user experience and guard against fraud.
May 15 -
The laws that force banks to know their customers are good at catching petty criminals and “wannabe” terrorists, but can’t thwart sophisticated bad actors, argues whistleblower Edward Snowden.
May 15 -
Stellar, which started as a splinter group from Ripple, has formed a for-profit company called Lightyear.io to help financial institutions integrate its software.
May 11 -
Cambridge Blockchain, a startup that bills its technology as a solution for banks to the competing regulatory imperatives of transparency and privacy, has raised $2 million through a convertible note.
February 1 -
American Banker readers share their views on the most pressing banking topics of the week. Comments are excerpted from reader responses to AmericanBanker.com articles, social media, and from around the web.
January 12 -
For years, there's been a lot of talk about personal information as an unalloyed asset. But by now it should be clear that the more information a company has about its customers, the bigger a target it is for hackers.
January 5